ERDOGAN: ANKARA SINCERE IN RELATIONS WITH YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.01.2009 19:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian diaspora is trying to benefit from the
current situation, but the country’s administration does not agree
with it, Turkey’s Prime Minister said Wednesday.

"The Armenian diaspora is working, but their efforts are aimed
at gaining benefits from the situation. Meanwhile, the Armenian
administration does not seem to share their position," Recep Tayyip
Erdogan told reporters before his departure for Davos.

Erdogan said meetings between Turkish and Armenian diplomats continue
and are supposed to pave the way to meeting at the top level.

"We have always been sincere in our relations with Yerevan," he added.

Turkey severed diplomatic relations and closed the border with Armenia
to support Azerbaijan in the Nagorno Karabakh issue in 1993.

The visit of Turkish President Abdullah Gul to Armenia on Sept. 6,
2008 was welcomed as thaw in bilateral relations.