TURKEY NOW SHIFTS BLAME TO ARMENIAN DIASPORA

Tert.am
12:04 â~@¢ 28.01.10

Regardless of whether the Armenia-Turkey border will open or not, the
Armenian Diaspora will always find ways to hamper the reconciliation
process, reports Turkish paper Gunes, referring to the ratification
process of the Armenia-Turkey Protocols.

"A few months ago, an agreement was signed between Turkey and Armenia
aimed at the normalization of bilateral relations. Let’s remember the
signing ceremony for a moment. While Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
was smiling endlessly, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian’s
look prompted that he was in rather an inconvenient situation.

"It is obvious that both Russia and US are exerting pressure [on
Nalbandian] over the issue and for that reason he signed the agreement
against his will," reports Gunes, adding that the Armenian Diaspora,
which holds powerful political positions, will do its best to overthrow
the reconciliation process.

"The Diaspora, which developed on the basis of enmity against Turks and
Turkey, could not tolerate such an agreement. The agreement did not
regard the ‘Genocide’ issue as a precondition, but judging by the RA
Constitutional Court’s ruling, it was not so at all," the paper writes.

According to Gunes, Turkish authorities are now greatly disappointed
because, after several months’ scrupulous work on the Protocols,
the reconciliation process has come to a halt.

Adding that this scenario was predictable from the very beginning
of the reconciliation process, the paper writes: "One need not be
a fortune-teller or an expert to foresee such a scenario. In short,
even if we open the border with Armenia, even if we meet them half way
in their demands and give them something, in any case, the Diaspora
will always find ways to hamper the process."