TURKEY PRESSURES ITS POLITICAL MACHINE TO FIND ANSWER TO ARMENIAN COALITION PARTIES STATEMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 22, 2010 – 17:20 AMT 12:20 GMT

Turkey missed her chance at normalizing ties with Armenia; yet I don’t
consider that chance completely lost, an expert Ruben Melkonyan stated.

As he told PanARMENIAN.Net Ankara will be able to normalize ties with
Yerevan in case of altering position on the issue. "By continued
imitation of reconciliation process, Turkey gained an image of
unreliable partner."

He expressed a supposition that oncoming presidential address will
refer to either freezing of the process or Armenia’s withdrawal of
Protocols signature.

"Currently, Turkey is pressuring its political machine to find answer
to Armenian coalition parties statement," the expert said, adding
that Turkey might resort to blackmail.

"Armenian government took these steps in an attempt to prevent possible
bargains with Armenian Genocide memory," Ruben Melkonyan stated.