TURKISH PARLIAMENT TO WAIT FOR KARABAKH-RELATED STEPS FROM YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.10.2009 21:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Protocols of the normalization of Armenia-Turkey
relations are submitted to the parliament of the country, but Turkey’s
legislature before ratification of these documents will wait until
Armenia withdraws its troops from the 5 regions of Nagorno-Karabakh,
Sinan Ogan , chairman of the Turkish Society for International
Relations and Strategic Analysis (TURKSAM) told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter.

"Today the foreign minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu addressed the
Parliament and presented the Protocols. But still, without resolution
of the Karabakh issue the Turkish parliament would not ratify these
documents, " the Turkish expert said, adding that Ankara will wait
for concrete steps from Yerevan towards Karabakh.

Commenting on the statement of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for European and Eurasian Affairs Tina Kaydenau that the U.S. adheres
to position that the Armenian-Turkish relations should be normalized
without preconditions according to a reasonable time-table, Sinan Ogan
said that, despite these statements, Ankara yet has preconditions
for Yerevan, especially now, during the "crisis of flags" between
Azerbaijan and Turkey.