R. SAFRASTYAN: "TURKEY FOLLOWS EU"
Panorama.am
19:01 10/04/2008
The inner political changes in Turkey are directed towards the European
Union, said the director of Continental Studies institute of the
Sciences National Academy Ruben Safrastyan. He said that the recent
political changes in Turkey are rather astonishing and amusing which
could have their impacts on the foreign affairs too. "Now "Justice
and Development" party is intended to strength the euro integration
activities which was slowed in the last two years. Remember, last
year European Union has just stopped the negotiations with Turkey,"
said Safrastyan.
According to Safrastyan, if Turkey tends to immerge into EU the
country should smooth the relations with the regional countries. "On
this regard Turkey improved the relations with Iran, Arabic countries,
and now it turned to Russia," he said.
He notified that after Turkey will remember about Armenia and will
manage to improve the relations with our country and start the
negotiations about the border line.