WEST PRESSURISES TURKEY

The Messenger
Feb 12 2010
Georgia

The West is pressurising Turkey to normalise its relations with
Armenia. According to regnum.ru the Head of the International
Centre for Strategic Research in Turkey has stated that the West is
pressurising Turkey to open its border with Armenia even if some
of the details of this reopening contradict Turkish interests and
regional policy. He thinks that Turkey is under pressure from both
the USA and senior EU officials, who are putting on the table the
question of Turkey’s accession to the EU.

Turkey has clearly stated that opening the border and normalising
relations with Turkey will become possible if Armenia gives up
its claims to some Turkish territory, stops seeking international
recognition of the humanitarian catastrophe at the beginning of the
20th century as genocide and liberates the Azerbaijani territory it
has occupied. Armenian-Turkish protocol ratification will not take
place unless these preconditions are met.