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    DESPITE EVERYTHING, TURKEY WILL RATIFY PROTOCOLS, SAY TURKISH JOURNALISTS IN ARMENIA

    Tert.am
    17.12.09

    With the aim of meeting and holding discussions with their Armenian
    colleagues, two Turkish journalists - Verhat Boratav of CNN Turk
    and Badri Gyursel of Milliyet - arrived in Armenia recently and
    took the time to respond to Armenian journalists' questions during
    a press conference today. Speaking about the ratification of the
    Armenian-Turkish Protocols, Gyursel noted that if progress in the
    settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not registered,
    Turkey's Grand National Assembly (the Millet Meclisi) won't ratify
    the Protocols.

    At the same time, he noted that he can't say how events will unfold
    over the next few months. "It was perhaps in May of this year that
    Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan announced in Baku that if no progress
    is recorded in the Karabakh issue, even though nothing is noted about
    this in the Protocols, they [the Protocols] can't be ratified. From
    that time till today, Turkey's standpoint on that issue hasn't
    changed," said the journalist from Turkey. Turkey is also concerned
    that after Protocols ratification, Armenia will "feel free" and there
    won't be any progress in the Karabakh issue.

    "I, personally, would rather that the Karabakh issue not get mixed up
    with this issue, but Turkey's government, being under pressure, felt
    under obligation," stated Gyursel. Asked what pressure is Turkey's
    government being subjected to, the journalist said, "both foreign
    and internal."

    Boratav, in turn, noted that nobody in Turkey was expecting that
    Azerbaijan would respond in such a way to this issue: "In this game,
    it's not Armenia and Turkey who are dancing the tango, but rather
    this is a tango of 5 states, since participating in the process are
    also the U.S, Russia, and Azerbaijan."

    By the end of the press conference, the Turkish journalists assured
    their Armenian colleagues that, despite everything, Turkey will
    ratify the Protocols, and a third party can do nothing about that,
    since "Turkey has decided it so."
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