TURKEY MUST ACT BASED ON PRIME MINISTER’S STATEMENTS IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH RAPPROCHEMENT: FORMER FM
U.Sadikhova
Trend News
11.12.2009 20:51
Turkey should not give way to the influence of persons and groups
in the issue of connection of the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement
and the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and should act
on the basis of statements by the Prime Minister, said Yasar Yakis,
a member of the Turkish Parliament and former Foreign Minister.
Statements by the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the United
States that the Armenian-Turkish protocols will not be ratified
without progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are already the
clear position of Turkey, and any statements from the outside are
empty, Yakis told Trend News special correspondent in Mardin.
Former Turkish Foreign Minister takes part in the second
Turkish-European forum, held in the Turkish city of Mardin.
"We are negotiating with the European Union and EU structures,"
Yakis said, adding that statements by separate persons of EU do not
reflect the position of the Union.
"We must adhere to only the statements [of Erdogan] that without
solving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, promotion can not be in this
matter [the Armenian-Turkish normalization]," said Yakis.
Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward
Nalbandian signed the Ankara-Yerevan protocols in Zurich Oct. 10.
Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey have been broken due
to Armenia’s claims of an alleged genocide, and its occupation of
Azerbaijani lands. The border between them has been broken since 1993.