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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
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