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TURKISH EXPERT: ERDOGAN "WAS WRONG" TO LEAVE THE HALL DURING SARGSYAN'S SPEECH
ARMINFO
Tuesday, September 27, 15:17
Burcu Gultekin Punsmann, PhD. Senior Foreign Policy Analyst, the
Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), said talking to
ArmInfo that Prime Minister Erdogan's leaving the UN General Assembly
session hall during Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's speech was
"a wrong step".
Few people in Turkey have noticed that fact, she said, the public in
Turkey was more interested in the meeting of the country's leadership
with Obama and discussion of the Turkish-Armenian relations alongside
with other issues on the agenda. "We are not as sensitive to that as
Armenians. But I think that it was a wrong step," Punsmann said.
She highlighted the fact that the Turkish president congratulated the
Armenian people on the 20th Independence Anniversary on September 21.
Even if there are no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey,
she said, the relations must be somehow observed. "You know, our
prime minister is not a very good diplomat. He displayed diplomatic
isrespect when he left the hall not listening to the speech of the
neighbor country's president," Punsmann said.
ARMINFO
Tuesday, September 27, 15:17
Burcu Gultekin Punsmann, PhD. Senior Foreign Policy Analyst, the
Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), said talking to
ArmInfo that Prime Minister Erdogan's leaving the UN General Assembly
session hall during Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's speech was
"a wrong step".
Few people in Turkey have noticed that fact, she said, the public in
Turkey was more interested in the meeting of the country's leadership
with Obama and discussion of the Turkish-Armenian relations alongside
with other issues on the agenda. "We are not as sensitive to that as
Armenians. But I think that it was a wrong step," Punsmann said.
She highlighted the fact that the Turkish president congratulated the
Armenian people on the 20th Independence Anniversary on September 21.
Even if there are no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey,
she said, the relations must be somehow observed. "You know, our
prime minister is not a very good diplomat. He displayed diplomatic
isrespect when he left the hall not listening to the speech of the
neighbor country's president," Punsmann said.