TURKISH FM: ARMENIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT’S DECISION CONFLICTS WITH ANKARA-YEREVAN PROTOCOLS

Trend
Jan 19 2010
Azerbaijan

The Armenian Constitutional Court’s decision is inconsistent with the
Turkish-Armenian protocols, the Anadolu news agency reported today,
citing the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward
Nalbandian signed the Ankara-Yerevan protocols in Zurich Oct. 10.

Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey have been broken due
to Armenia’s claims of an alleged genocide, and its occupation of
Azerbaijani lands. The border between them has been broken since 1993.

Although many do not consider interrelated the normalization of
Turkish-Armenian relations and the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh,
Turkey-Armenia relations are directly dependent on resolving the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
said in Ankara in an interview after his visit to Moscow.