Armen Ashotyan writes: “Armenia is not on the EU-Turkey relations agenda

Yesterday, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the European Parliament approved another report related to Turkey’s EU membership, which will be adopted in its final form at one of the upcoming sessions of the European Parliament.

What should be learned from that report based on Armenia’s interests?

The first. Unlike the previous “Serzh years”, this time there is no demand or concern about the need to normalize relations with Armenia, there is no hint about the need to open the Armenian-Turkish border, or European concern and demand for improving bilateral relations.

The second. Unlike the previous “Serzh years”, there is no demand for Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Let me remind you that during “Serzh” the need to recognize the Armenian Genocide by the European Parliament was even raised as a precondition for Turkey’s membership in the EU.

The third. The concern of the European Union, however, remains regarding the Turkish policy regarding the Cyprus problem, as well as the need for the regulation of Turkish-Greek relations.

The fourth. Turkey’s alignment with the common foreign and defense policy of the European Union has reached a historical minimum of only 4 percent. Let me remind you that in the case of current managers of Armenia, this compliance is 30% more. This means that Turkey has continued and will continue to implement a foreign and defense policy based exclusively on its own interests, in which case the prospect of the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations will depend exclusively on Turkish interests. Not to mention the almost nullified efforts by the current regime of Armenia regarding the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

The fifth. It is also noteworthy that a large part of the report refers to the decline of democracy in Turkey, persecution of political rivals, political prisoners and many other anti-democratic developments.

In other words, the European Union, when it needs to, sees problems in other states that are related to democratic setbacks that do not meet European standards.

In the case of Armenia, they keep cynically silent about all that, although the current ruler of Armenia differs little from Erdogan, whom Europeans regularly rank among autocrats, in terms of his handwriting and the intensity of repressions.

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