ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS ARE NOT DEFINED AT YEREVAN-ANKARA EDGE BUT ANKARA-BRUSSELS, LOCAL
ArmInfo, Armenia
Sept 25 2007
ArmInfo. The prospects of the Armenian-Turkish relations development
are not defined at Yerevan-Ankara edge but Ankara-Brussels, director of
Mass Media Caucasus Institute, political expert Aleksandr Iskandaryan
told ArmInfo correspondent.
He also added that today Turkey wishes to join the European Union,
for this reason not titanic but tectonics reforms have been made in
this country over the last years, which reformed it much from the
times of Ataturk. The last presidential election in Turkey are also
evidence of this. ‘I cannot say for 100, 50 or even 30% but at least
for 20% that these reforms will lead Ankara to warming of relations
with Armenia’, – the political expert said. He did not rule out that
the reforms may be stopped immediately and the country may sharply
turn to another way. ‘Such things often happened in the history of
Turkey’, – Iskandaryan concluded.