“Recent activeness in Armenian-Turkish process and the Protocols signed between two states resulted from President Serzh Sargsyan’s speech delivered during the meeting with his Serbian colleague. Thereafter, Turkish political system started searching for response to our President’s statement,” YSU lecturer, Turkish studies expert Ruben Melkonyan told today a press conference in Yerevan.
At the current stage, Turkey is attempting to resolve problems it has been facing for several decades, the speaker finds. Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party is considered a political force which not only fights for problematic issues but also tries to solve them, as seen by heated discussions over Kurdish problem and the issue on opening border with Armenia,” Melkonyan stressed, adding that one of reasons Turkish ruling party signed the document was to save the country’s image vs. avoiding internal problems.
