We’re in the heart of the Caucasian maze Geographical logic would have bore us from Kars  Turkey  right to Yerevan  Armenia The border was closed by the Turkish government over seventeen years ago for several reasons: the war over Nagorno-Karabakh  the official requests of Armenia to recognize the 1915 Turkish genocide of Armenians and unofficial disputes regarding the present-day Armenian territory which no longer comprises Mount Ararat and the region of Kars