Armenia-Turkey reconciliation
* Ruben Melkonyan
“The process of normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations has entered a deadlock through Turkey’s efforts,” Turkologist Ruben Melkonyan told a press conference today. Acordingt o him, the situation could be predicted and nothing will change if Turkey continues speaking the language of preconditions.
According to Ruben Melkonyan’s assessment, besides being committed to our national and state interests, the decision of the Constitutional Court included a legal response
* Hayk Babukhanyan
Turkey’s behavior after the decision of the Armenian Constitutional Court evidences that it is attempting to drag the process of ratification of the protocols and use the time to seize concessions in the Karabakh settlement process, President of the Constitutional Right Union Hayk Babukhanyan told a press conference today.
“I think Armenia does not have to accept the rules of that game and should set March 1 as a deadline for ratification,” he said.
According to Hayk Babukhanyan’s assessment, Turkey will drag out the process until April 23 in order to seize concessions in the Karabakh settlement process, and will ratify the protocols on the eve of April 24 as a winning party.
“If Turkey fails to ratify the protocols by March 1, Armenia has to recall its signature and speak in the language of preconditions with Turkey,” he said. According to Hayk Babukhanyan, the preconditions should include recognition of the Armenian Genocide, material reimbursement and return of the territories annexed to Turkey in 1918-1920.
