NEGATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECISION COULD BE CAUSE FOR TURKEY TO REJECT PROTOCOLS: CHAKRYAN

Tert.am
16:27 ~U 12.01.10

While the Constitutional Court is discussing the Armenian-Turkish
Protocols behind closed doors, Tert.am attempted to find out how the
Court’s decision would affect the process of ratifying the Protocols
in Turkey.

Tert.am spoke with Turkologist Hakob Chakryan, who said, "A negative
Constitutional Court decision will provide grounds for Turkey to reject
the Protocols in their parliament by announcing and substantiating
their decision to the world, saying that Armenia’s Constitutional
Court already rejected [the Protocols]."

The Turkologist is of the opinion that if Armenia truly has an
interest in ratifying the Protocols, it wouldn’t be right, in a
political sense, to provide cause for Turkey to substantiate its
rejection of the Protocols.

However, according to Chakryan, the Constitutional Court
doesn’t concern itself with politics, its issue is overseeing the
implementation of law, and so, if the Protocols truly do not correspond
with the Constitution or its individual tenets, then the Court must
make the appropriate decision, regardless of how much that decision
will provide grounds for Turkey to substantiate its own rejection.