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    ERDOGAN NO LONGER BELIEVES IN HIS OWN WORDS - ARMENIAN EXPERT

    10:43 â~@¢ 12.02.15

    Though Armenia and the Armenian diaspora have been unanimous on
    issues of pan-national importance, their efforts to rebuff the
    Turkish authorities and propaganda have been always met a failure,
    a Turkologist has said, commenting on a recent statement made by
    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    Speaking to Tert.am, Ruben Melkonyan, a deputy dean at the Yerevan
    State University's Oriental StudiesÕ~[ Department, particularly
    focused on the Turkish leader's words saying that "... our peace hand
    has always been rejected by the influence of Armenian Diaspora" .

    "I don't think Erdogan any longer believes in his words deep in his
    heart; if there had been a desire between Turkey and Armenia to embark
    on building normal relations, there were the 2009 Zurich protocols
    for that," he noted.

    Melkonyan said he doesn't find that a politician seeking to establish
    relations with a neighboring state should choose lyric digressions for
    doing so, leaving aside a process that requires diplomatic procedures
    and corresponding documents.

    "As for the other invitations, sentimental, emotional and sensual
    statements and propaganda based on fabrications - about lending a hand
    and getting no reply, - they are all from a different genre that has
    nothing to do with the truth, reality and logic," said the Turkologist.

    He described Erdogan's apparent attempts to split Armenia and the
    Diaspora as yet another failure, noting that any address to Armenia
    is a message to a 10 million community (not just the a population of
    3 million) which has fair demands anchored on universal human values.

    "So Erdogan keeps playing the old music, with no single line in his
    statement reflecting any norm or sound logic," he added.

    In his statement issued Wednesday, Erdogan also referred to the
    invitation sent earlier to different world leaders, asking them to
    visit Turkey on April 24 to join the Gallipoli Campaign's centenary
    events.

    "We would like them to come and be in Canakkale on April 24, to
    breathe in that atmosphere and try to understand that happened among
    our hundreds of thousands of martyrs. But they didn't do that,"
    the Turkish leader said.

    Commenting on the message, Melkonyan said he sees that it is absolutely
    unrelated to either politics or ethics. "The Turkish officials and
    presidential spokesperson made statements far beyond the limits of
    politeness; secondly, Erdogan's rhetoric was replete in terms unrelated
    to politeness, and his discourse is known with its ill-bred nature,"
    he noted.

    Melkonyan said at the end that he doesn't find Erdogan to be the
    right person to demand respect for rules of politeness.

    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/02/12/uben-melqonyan/1587263

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