POSITIVE STEP MADE BY TURKEY TOWARD CYPRUS SHOULD BE APPLIED TO ARMENIA AS WELL, TURKISH PRESS WRITES

The positive step made by Turkey toward Cyprus should be applied to Armenia as well, the article titled “Turn for Armenia” and published in Radical Turkish newspaper says. The author of the publication mentions of the call addressed by Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan to Armenians to alleviate the burden of the past and look forward to the future. At the same time, the article notes, it is not enough as the calls of the kind have been already heard earlier. In the opinion of the author, the Turkish Prime Minister should visit Armenia at the head of the delegation of Turkish businessmen, who with their Armenian colleagues could discuss the ways of development of trade-economic ties. At that the newspaper notes, that Ankara taking the role of “the elder brother” should display more activity in the settlement of the Armenian-Azeri relations. “If necessary we should provide Armenia with economic and technical assistance as well”, the article runs.