MHP WANTS WITHDRAWAL OF ARMENIA PROTOCOLS
Today’s Zaman
Jan 21 2010
Turkey
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli has demanded
that the protocols signed by Armenia and Turkey to normalize relations
between the two countries be withdrawn from Parliament.
Following Ankara’s reaction to an Armenian Constitutional Court
ruling approving the protocols but at the same time establishing
"restrictions" on their implementation, the MHP released a written
statement.
MHP officials claimed that this new situation showed that the protocols
would not change an article in the Armenian Declaration of Independence
defining eastern Anatolia as "Western Armenia." The MHP statement
also said that the ruling by Armenia’s top court emphasized that the
protocols concern bilateral relations only between Turkey and Armenia
and leave out the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is
under Armenian occupation. Calling the present situation "shameful,"
the MHP claimed that the Turkish nation had been "deceived."