ARMENIAN-TURKISH RAPPROCHEMENT TALKS WILL HARDLY BE RESUMED UNTIL 2013-2014

ArmInfo
2010-04-28 11:02:00

ArmInfo The Armenian-Turkish rapprochement talks will hardly be resumed
until 2013-2014, say Masterforex-V Trading Academy Forum experts.

They say that the present Turkish authorities will hardly do anything
to ratify the Armenian-Turkish protocols before the parliamentary
elections 2011 while the most probable winners, the Nationalists,
are even less likely to foster the process.

An article in the Birzhevoy Lider magazine says that independent
Armenia has come face to face with the successor of the Ottoman Empire
(the regime that committed the Armenian Genocide in the territory of
Western Armenia) and with its denial policy. Turkey sees that Armenia
is able to initiate the international recognition of the Armenian
Genocide and may claim compensation, as a result.

The article says that the key goal of the Armenian Genocide was to
establish a direct link between the Ottoman Turks and the Turkish
speaking communities of the Russian Empire and Persia. The Turks’ plan
was to annihilate the Armenians living in the territory of the Ottoman
Empire and Eastern Armenia (Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh). It was
then that the Turks and the Azeris formed their military-political
alliance against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh – a geographical
barrier in Turkey’s way to Baku and its oil.

The fate of Nagorno-Karabakh was sealed in 1921: the Caucasian Bureau
of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party decided to
make it part of Armenian SSR but, all of a sudden, they changed their
verdict under the "wise" pressure of Stalin. The region was given to
Azerbaijani SSR. Their argument was as follows: "Considering the need
to ensure peace between Muslims and Armenians, economic ties between
Upper and Lower Karabakhs and permanent link with Azerbaijan, we
hereby rule that Nagorno-Karabakh should left within Azerbaijani SSR."

This obvious contradiction between historical facts and a political
decision constitutes the background of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

As it is accepted to consider, it was the Turkish factor that
determined this decision of the USSR country, having thereby calmed
down the Turkish governors and the unrest of the USSR Muslims. With its
population, which was much larger than the Armenian one, Azerbaijan
was considered to be the beacon of revolution in the East and seemed
more important than Yerevan for the revolution interests.

The article says that such position of Ankara in delaying the
ratification of the Protocols and Yerevan’s reaction to this are
getting clear now, as the Protocols reflect normalization of the
Armenian-Turkish relations, and not the problems of Armenia or
Azerbaijan.

Formally, neither of the leading countries of the world is revising
the principle of territorial integrity. But, unfortunately, this is
only formally. In fact, double standards are observed everywhere,
and this proved by the attitude to the situations in the Balkans and
in the Caucasus.