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ANKARA TRYING TO CREATE "TIME TROUBLE" IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROCESS
PanARMENIAN.Net
01.02.2010 15:17 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Within coming month Turkey will be trying to create
a "situation of time trouble" in the process of Armenian-Turkish
rapproachment. If Ankara will not be able to achieve its goals
within some time, it will apply the "Zugzwang" method, Hayk Demoyan ,
director of the Institute of Armenian Genocide museum told a press
conference in Yerevan, assessing the overall situation in the process
of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.
"Any action made by Turkey would complicate the situation of Ankara.
The statements by the Turkish side related to the RA Constitutional
Court decision on the Protocols , have not received any support
from the superpowers. There is some disappointment now in Turkey,
" the historian said.
According to him, the disappointment was particularly conditioned by
the fact that Turkey and its allies realized that no concessions over
the Karabakh settlement can be expected from the Armenian side in the
near future. In addition, the Turkish side anticipated slowdown of
the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide ,
which didn't happen, the historian said.
"That propaganda thesis according to which Armenia has territorial
claims against Turkey did not work and Turkey understood it," the
museum director said. All are witnessing how it is difficult for
Turkey to lose Azerbaijan.
The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued the following official
statement on Armenia-Turkey Protocols:
"The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia has declared
its decision of constitutional conformity on the Protocols between
Turkey and Armenia signed on 10 October 2009 with a short statement
on 12 January 2010. The Constitutional Court has recently published
its grounds of decision. It has been observed that this decision
contains preconditions and restrictive provisions which impair the
letter and spirit of the Protocols.
The said decision undermines the very reason for negotiating these
Protocols as well as their fundamental objective. This approach cannot
be accepted on our part."
The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988 as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from
1991 to 1994. Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions
of Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the control
of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks
mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.
The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be
April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250
Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.
Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes
and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of
food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were
indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse
commonplace. The Armenian Genocide is the second most-studied case of
genocide after the Holocaust. The Republic of Turkey, the successor
state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate
description of the events. In recent years, it has faced repeated
calls to accept the events as genocide. To date, twenty countries and
44 U.S. states have officially recognized the events of the period as
genocide, and most genocide scholars and historians accept this view.
The Armenian Genocide has been also recognized by influential media
including The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post and The
Associated Press. The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were
formed by the Genocide survivors.
PanARMENIAN.Net
01.02.2010 15:17 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Within coming month Turkey will be trying to create
a "situation of time trouble" in the process of Armenian-Turkish
rapproachment. If Ankara will not be able to achieve its goals
within some time, it will apply the "Zugzwang" method, Hayk Demoyan ,
director of the Institute of Armenian Genocide museum told a press
conference in Yerevan, assessing the overall situation in the process
of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.
"Any action made by Turkey would complicate the situation of Ankara.
The statements by the Turkish side related to the RA Constitutional
Court decision on the Protocols , have not received any support
from the superpowers. There is some disappointment now in Turkey,
" the historian said.
According to him, the disappointment was particularly conditioned by
the fact that Turkey and its allies realized that no concessions over
the Karabakh settlement can be expected from the Armenian side in the
near future. In addition, the Turkish side anticipated slowdown of
the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide ,
which didn't happen, the historian said.
"That propaganda thesis according to which Armenia has territorial
claims against Turkey did not work and Turkey understood it," the
museum director said. All are witnessing how it is difficult for
Turkey to lose Azerbaijan.
The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued the following official
statement on Armenia-Turkey Protocols:
"The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia has declared
its decision of constitutional conformity on the Protocols between
Turkey and Armenia signed on 10 October 2009 with a short statement
on 12 January 2010. The Constitutional Court has recently published
its grounds of decision. It has been observed that this decision
contains preconditions and restrictive provisions which impair the
letter and spirit of the Protocols.
The said decision undermines the very reason for negotiating these
Protocols as well as their fundamental objective. This approach cannot
be accepted on our part."
The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988 as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from
1991 to 1994. Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions
of Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the control
of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks
mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.
The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be
April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250
Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.
Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes
and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of
food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were
indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse
commonplace. The Armenian Genocide is the second most-studied case of
genocide after the Holocaust. The Republic of Turkey, the successor
state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate
description of the events. In recent years, it has faced repeated
calls to accept the events as genocide. To date, twenty countries and
44 U.S. states have officially recognized the events of the period as
genocide, and most genocide scholars and historians accept this view.
The Armenian Genocide has been also recognized by influential media
including The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post and The
Associated Press. The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were
formed by the Genocide survivors.