ANKARA MAY DELAY PROTOCOL RATIFICATION ON ACCOUNT OF OPPOSITION’S DISSATISFACTION
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
18.09.2009 12:27 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Both Armenia and Turkey have unequivocal approach
to Armenian-Turkish rapprochement. Turkish political forces’ approach
is based on the given party’s ideology, Turkish Studies expert Ruben
Melkonyan told a press conference in Yerevan. "Turkish FM Ahmet
Davutoglu has already met with several political forces. Meetings
clearly showed that party leaders mainly have negative attitude to
Armenian-Turkish rapprochement and border opening," expert said.
In his opinion, Turkish leadership is secretly elaborating the next
scenario, i.e. it is delaying Protocol ratification on account of
opposition’s dissatisfaction. "Ankara may suspend the process unless
it sees positive signs in Karabakh process. Ruling AKP party makes
up majority in Parliament so ratification should be no problem. But I
don’t rule out the possibility that some AKP members will make tough
statements to hamper ratification process," Melkonyan stressed.