TURKISH EXPERTS HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS REGARDING RATIFICATION OF THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS

ArmInfo
2009-10-13 16:36:00

ArmInfo. Turkish experts Huseyin Bagci and Sinan Ogan expressed
different views regarding ratification of the Armenian-Turkish
Protocols at today’s TV-bridge Yerevan-Ankara-Moscow.

President of the Turkish Centre of International Relations and
Strategical Analysis, Sinan Ogan, said that till today several
issues were discussed over the Armenian-Turkish dialogue, but at
present only the problem of Nagornyy Karabakh is leading. ‘Although
it was not fixed in the Protocols, no document will be ratified by
the Turkish parliament if the Karabakh conflict is not taken into
account, and if there is no progress in the process, Turkey will not
open the border to Armenia’, – Ogan said and added he had a talk with
10 members of the parliament and all of them repeat Erdogan’s words
that without progress in the Karabakh conflict settlement process,
opening of the border to Armenia is impossible.

For his part, vice-president of European Security Academy, Huseyin
Bagci, said that the turkish parliament will undoubtedly ratify
Armenian-Turkish Protocols, as there is no way back. He also added
that the spirit of the time requires not contradiction but cooperation.