US asks Turkey to push on rapprochement with Armenia

Washington is pressing Ankara to move toward rapprochement with Yerevan following the collapse of talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan last month over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. "The time is right for normalization," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Turkish officials during a visit earlier this month. "Some action to get the process moving, to give [it] momentum would be fine." In June Azerbaijan and Armenia failed to come to an agreement over Nagorno-Karabakh during a meeting in Russia. The US was reportedly angered by a U-turn by Baku during the talks.