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TURKEY'S ERDOGAN MISLEADS, SLAMS, THREATENS
Panorama.am
17:57 01/02/2010
Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, just before the Euronews
launch of broadcasting in Turkish, spoke with the Euronews on a
range of topics, from Turkey's negotiations aimed at eventual full
membership in the European Union to Cyprus, relations with Israel,
questions on the Kurdish minority and Armenia.
Referring to the constitutional court of Armenia's interpretation
of the Turkish-Armenian protocols aimed at normalising mutual ties,
Erdogan said:
"We appear to have got off to an unhealthy start. Well, we appear to
have got off to an unhealthy start. What are we negotiating about?
What are we going to do? Armenia should once again take this into
consideration, because we fulfilled our protocol commitments," he
stressed. Yet, despite the above, the Premier emphasized Turkey's
readiness to continue with the process. "Both sides have road maps.
The process will continue. We are fully prepared and sincere, and
will proceed in the same way as we have so far," he concluded.
Mr Erdogan is evidently misleading everyone saying "we fulfilled our
protocol commitments": we can call this nothing but a lie.
Moreover, taking into consideration where he sounded it, we can call
it an attempt to mislead the international public.
Actually, after signing the normalization protocols, Turkey has taken
no certain steps over ratification. Despite the determined terms,
even the foreign relations committee of the Turkish parliament has
not passed a conclusion over the documents, while it should have done
this by mid-December, 2009.
As to what the Turkish party has done over fulfilling its commitments,
is not a secret: they have made statements which not only have nothing
to do with the protocols but also contradict to those.
What we can do is only remind the Turkish PM once again that the
decision of the Armenian Constitutional Court is final and it is not
subject to appeal.
Referring to Turkey's EU integration, Erdogan said: "Unfortunately,
some of the EU member states are not acting honestly. This is where
a problem arises. Why am I saying this? Because they are trying
to corner Turkey with conditions that do not exist in the acquis
communautaire [the total accumulated body of EU law]. This is really
wrong. We have to bear in mind that we leaders are mortal but that
nations are not. A leader's (refers to French President Sarkozy)
negative approach towards another country would negatively affect
people's perception in that country about the country of that leader."
Most interesting thing about this is that due to the lack of
substantial arguments, Erdogan again turns to Turkey's most wide-spread
method of solving issues: threat.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Panorama.am
17:57 01/02/2010
Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, just before the Euronews
launch of broadcasting in Turkish, spoke with the Euronews on a
range of topics, from Turkey's negotiations aimed at eventual full
membership in the European Union to Cyprus, relations with Israel,
questions on the Kurdish minority and Armenia.
Referring to the constitutional court of Armenia's interpretation
of the Turkish-Armenian protocols aimed at normalising mutual ties,
Erdogan said:
"We appear to have got off to an unhealthy start. Well, we appear to
have got off to an unhealthy start. What are we negotiating about?
What are we going to do? Armenia should once again take this into
consideration, because we fulfilled our protocol commitments," he
stressed. Yet, despite the above, the Premier emphasized Turkey's
readiness to continue with the process. "Both sides have road maps.
The process will continue. We are fully prepared and sincere, and
will proceed in the same way as we have so far," he concluded.
Mr Erdogan is evidently misleading everyone saying "we fulfilled our
protocol commitments": we can call this nothing but a lie.
Moreover, taking into consideration where he sounded it, we can call
it an attempt to mislead the international public.
Actually, after signing the normalization protocols, Turkey has taken
no certain steps over ratification. Despite the determined terms,
even the foreign relations committee of the Turkish parliament has
not passed a conclusion over the documents, while it should have done
this by mid-December, 2009.
As to what the Turkish party has done over fulfilling its commitments,
is not a secret: they have made statements which not only have nothing
to do with the protocols but also contradict to those.
What we can do is only remind the Turkish PM once again that the
decision of the Armenian Constitutional Court is final and it is not
subject to appeal.
Referring to Turkey's EU integration, Erdogan said: "Unfortunately,
some of the EU member states are not acting honestly. This is where
a problem arises. Why am I saying this? Because they are trying
to corner Turkey with conditions that do not exist in the acquis
communautaire [the total accumulated body of EU law]. This is really
wrong. We have to bear in mind that we leaders are mortal but that
nations are not. A leader's (refers to French President Sarkozy)
negative approach towards another country would negatively affect
people's perception in that country about the country of that leader."
Most interesting thing about this is that due to the lack of
substantial arguments, Erdogan again turns to Turkey's most wide-spread
method of solving issues: threat.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress