ARMENIA OFFERS TURKEY TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS, BUT IT’S STILL UNCLEAR WHAT TURKEY WANTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
14.11.2008 16:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The recent statement by the Turkish Defense Minister
is typical for this country’s mentality, AFR Dashnaktsutyun Bureau
representative said.

Progress in the Armenian-Turkish relations is hardly possible unless
Turkey acknowledges its past, Aghvan Vardanyan told a news conference
in Yerevan today.

"Armenia holds a dialogue with Turkey and offers to establish relations
without preconditions, but it’s still unclear what Turkey wants,"
he said.

On November 10, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said in Brussels,
"Would we be the nation-state we are today if the Greeks in the Aegean
region or the Armenians here and there continued to stay in Turkey?"

Gonul drew harsh criticism from intellectuals and civil society
organizations for expressing ideas in a way that could be taken for
justifying ethnic cleansing.

The Armenian community of Istanbul sent a letter to PM Erdogan to
remind that the Turkish Constitution says that Turk is a citizen of
Turkey, irrelative of the nationality.