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    Emil Lazarian
  • 2 years ago
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Erdogan says Turkey ‘serious’ in normalization process with Armenia

Public Radio of Armenia
, 11:19
 1 minute read

Turkey is determined and serioud in the normalization process with Armenia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with TRT.

Speaking about his recent phone conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Erdogan said: “We had a phone call with Prime Minister Pashinyan, within the scope of the religious holidays of both countries. I am also pleased to hear that Pashinyan shares similar thoughts with us in terms of regional peace and cooperation. Now we expect them to take concrete steps beyond words.”

“We are serious and determined in the normalization process with Armenia. We also aim to establish full normalization and good neighborly relations,” Erdogan noted.

He said “there are over 100,000 Armenians in Turkey today.” 

“There are Armenians who are our citizens, and there are Armenians who are willing to become citizens. This shows our approach,” the Turkish President said, emphasyzing that they are “developing the approach with Armenia in coordination with Azerbaijan.”

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS