Turkish Way Of Speaking With "Ultimatums" No Longer Works

Panorama.am
19:33 04/09/2008

"Turkish President’s acceptation of his Armenian counterpart Serzh
Sargsyan’s invitation on visiting Yerevan to watch Armenia-Turkey World
Cup qualifying match on September 6 has completely destroyed the policy
that Turkey used to conduct during such long period of time," the
head of ARF political bureau and Hay Dat committee Kiro Manoyan says.

According to Mr. Manoyan president Gul’s visit cannot guarantee a
stabilization of the relations between two neighbor states. Moreover,
the speaker is very pessimistic about Turkey’s possible denial of
making its traditional preconditions or speaking in the language of
"ultimatums" to Armenia.

"Turkey needs political will to change the strategy it conducted
towards Armenia over past 17 years: This state has always refused
to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia since we gained
independence. But we hope that discussions held within Turkish society
will help them change their mind not only for the propagandistic
reason," Mr. Manoyan added.

Questioned whether Turkish President could change his mind at last
moment and refuse to visit Yerevan, K. Manoyan said everything was
possible in politics but Turkey had already violated diplomatic
protocol by its late answer to President Sargsyan’s invitation and
was unlikely to do anything that could harm its propagandistic plans
at the moment.