Author: Badalian Vardan

THE ‘SICK MAN,’ STILL – TURKISH ISLAMIZATION, IRAN, SYRIA, AND THE FATE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
by David Pryce-Jones

National Review
August 2011

Question any of our political masters or their subordinates about
Turkey and they will be quick to assert that it has long proved its
faithfulness to Western values. Membership of NATO speaks for itself;
there’s an important American air base at Incirlik; and for years,
Turkish leaders one and all have been petitioning the European Union
for admission. This is the one and only country in the Muslim Middle
East, it will also be said, that can pass as democratic and secular.

Habitual flattery of this kind masks the reality that superficial
imitative Westernization has barely touched Turkey’s very un-European
history and culture, or the respect and honor that its people feel
is their due.

The Turkish republic that replaced the defeated Ottoman Empire
after World War I takes its modernizing ideology from Kemal Ataturk,
the founding father who knew his own mind and had the authority to
enforce it on his people. Islam for him was the cause as well as the
guarantee of backwardness, and he did what he could to break its hold.

Official visitors are expected to lay a wreath at his rather forbidding
mausoleum in Ankara, rather as politicians visiting Beijing have to
do formal obeisance to Mao Tse-tung. Ataturk’s lasting contribution
was to make the military the real guardians of the constitution of
his new republic. Four coups in the last 50 years, and such events
as the arrest and hanging of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes in 1960,
prove where real power has lain. In the Muslim Middle East, the
paradox of the military’s resorting to authoritarian methods to
safeguard secular democracy has been special to Turkey.

Since 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been prime minister, and he is
now at the start of his third term in office. One of his declared
objectives is a new constitution, and it is clear by now that he
is reworking Ataturk’s legacy. He is setting himself up to have a
monopoly on power. Born in 1954, the son of a member of the coast
guard, Erdogan is no doubt a sincere Muslim, neither an extremist nor
a philosopher but convinced by upbringing and instinct that Islam and
patriotism are one and the same thing, and any Turk who disagrees with
him will have to be brought into line. Briefly a semi-professional
footballer, he has been a fully professional politician all his adult
life. Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998, he was in office when,
in a speech to a large public gathering, he quoted some lines of
a nationalist poet that are famous for their Muslim triumphalism:
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets
our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers.”

Upon being arrested for this, he is said to have shouted that the
song is not yet over. After four months in jail, he became a national
figure, founder and moving spirit of the Justice and Development party,
AKP in its Turkish initials, and finally prime minister.

A successful administrator, he has stabilized the currency, mastered
inflation, and delivered impressive economic growth, all of which
has encouraged voters to trust him. The opposition, the Republican
People’s party, or CHP in its Turkish initials, has been in disarray,
poorly led and preoccupied with factional and personal disputes that
leave the field clear for Erdogan.

He has been as ruthless as his predecessors in dealing with the Kurds:
Depending on who is doing the counting, Turkish Kurds number somewhere
between 10 and 20 million, or maybe 15 percent of the population. Most
of them live in the southeast of the country, and all are suspected of
a nationalist ambition to have a state of their own with a capital in
Diyarbakir. This might be a threat to Turkey’s territorial integrity,
and accordingly they are regularly persecuted on ethnic, linguistic,
and cultural grounds. In one particularly symbolic instance, Leyla
Zana, a well-known member of parliament, added a phrase in Kurdish
to the oath of loyalty she had to swear, and was sentenced for this
to 15 years in prison. (Twice she’s been recommended for the Nobel
peace prize.) The Kurdistan Workers’ party, or PKK, nominally Marxist
but realistically nationalist, has been waging a war of liberation for
decades. In the past 30 years, 40,000 Kurds are estimated to have been
killed; and 3,000 Kurdish villages destroyed, leaving some 350,000
refugees to make their own way, many of them fleeing to Scandinavia,
Germany, and Australia.

The PKK had a base in Syria until, in 1998, Turkey threatened to
go to war to close it. Hunted down, Abdullah Ocalan, the movement’s
leader, remains in prison in Turkey, apparently reprieved from a death
sentence. PKK guerrillas make regular incursions from Iraqi Kurdistan,
and Turkish armored columns then invade Iraq in reprisal.

Kurds are not alone in being abused: Christians in Turkey are victims
of the Islamization that is affecting the political and emotional
climate of every Muslim country. Of the approximately 60 Catholic
priests in the country, two have been killed in the last five years,
one of them beheaded to cries of “Allahu akbar.” Fr. Andrea Santoro
was shot dead from behind while saying his prayers. “I have killed
the Great Satan!” was the Iranian-style exclamation of the man who
murdered Bp. Luigi Padovese, the Vatican representative in Anatolia.

(“We don’t want to mix up this tragic episode with Islam,” was Pope
Benedict’s inexplicable comment.) In Malatya — hometown of Mehmet
Ali Agca, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II — three employees
of a small company publishing Bibles had their throats cut; two of
them were Muslim converts to Christianity.

Hundreds of judges and professors have been dismissed, in order to
control justice and education. Broadly drawn, Article 301 of the penal
code makes it illegal to insult Turkey, Turkish ethnicity, or Turkish
government institutions. Over a thousand people have been brought
to the courts under this article. One of the first to challenge it
directly was Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel prize winner for literature,
who wrote in 2005: “Thirty thousand Kurds have been killed here, and
a million Armenians. And almost nobody dares to mention that. So I do.”

His prosecution raised such an international scandal that the judge
felt obliged to find legal grounds for suspending the case. In the end,
Pamuk was merely fined a quite small sum for offending the honor of
a few plaintiffs.

Others have not been so fortunate. The Turkish-Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink was prosecuted in 2006 for insulting Turkishness, and
received a six-month suspended sentence. Radical nationalists then
assassinated him, after which Dink was posthumously acquitted of
the charge. At the latest count, 63 journalists are held in custody:
a greater number than in any other country, including Iran and China.

Four months ago, Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, two journalists in the
public eye, were arrested. The latter had written a couple of books
about the murder of Hrant Dink. The Istanbul prosecutor denied that
the arrest of these two had anything to do with their writings, but
then claimed that confidentiality prevented him from giving the reason
for their arrest. Dogan, one of the country’s largest media groups
and critical of the government, has been crippled by a fine of $3.05
billion for alleged unpaid taxes. The owner and some of the staff of
OdaTV, also critical of the government, were arrested. Thousands of
websites have been closed, and only last month 32 people were arrested
on a charge of plotting against government websites. Erdogan in person
has sued dozens of cartoonists and journalists for defamation. The
Turkish Journalists’ Association rightly protests about a “climate
of fear.”

The military could in theory have turned the tables on Erdogan with yet
another coup. Blindly, the European Union has succeeded in making the
army renounce any political role as a condition of Turkish admission;
Erdogan, therefore, has had the opening to strike and cripple the
military.

Ergenekon is a word borrowed appropriately from Turkish mythology,
and used since 2007 as the code name for a supposed conspiracy in
the armed forces to oust him. Five hundred or so people have been
arrested. Some sources say that, so far, 270 have been brought to
court, while others put that number nearer 300. Members of parliament
from the opposition CHP have been roped in, and two of them have been
awaiting trial for two years. Proceedings follow quite closely those
of the 1937 trials in the Soviet Union, when Stalin destroyed Marshal
Tukhachevsky and other generals who he feared might act against him.

Charges were invented that these officers were conspiring with the
Japanese, the Gestapo, British intelligence, or whomever. Just as
absurdly, Turkish officers are alleged to be plotting with Greeks,
Armenians, the PKK, even Christian missionaries. Erdogan delivered
the memorably opaque observation, “There is a deep Turkey working
against the deep state.” Few, however, believe that Ergenekon is
anything more than an ordinary play for power: So far, not a single
one of the accused has been convicted.

In 2003, Turkey voted not to allow American forces to enter Iraq
through its territory. Taking further distance from the United States,
Erdogan has protected Iran from sanctions and cooperated with Brazil
in a vain effort to gain the world’s acceptance of the Iranian
nuclear program. In April 2009, Turkey was the first Muslim country
that Barack Obama visited as president. In his main speech there,
he declared that “the United States is not and will never be at war
with Islam” and also that “we do not consider ourselves a Christian
nation” (he added that the nation isn’t Jewish or Muslim either, but
the qualification tends to get lost in amazement at the apologetics).

Calling Turkey “a critical ally,” he boosted its EU membership
— though this surely was none of his business — and he further
rhapsodized about some future all-embracing “modern international
community.” Mention was not made of persecuted minorities, mythical
conspiracies, or wrongful arrests. Secular Turks could only draw the
unwelcome conclusion that Obama was telling them that the U.S.

actively supports Islamism in their country. In Erdogan’s
interpretation, the U.S. was abandoning its interests in the region.

Here was the invitation to restore the glory of the pre-Ataturk
era, when Turkey was the preeminent Muslim power: He would be the
neo-Ottoman sultan.

Quite probably, Erdogan is venting anti-Israel fury only as a pretext
for neo-Ottoman heroics. At any rate he chose the crucial moment for
it with his customary calculation. The World Economic Forum was held
in Switzerland in January 2009, a couple of weeks after the Israeli
campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Shimon Peres, the Israeli
president, was sitting next to Erdogan when the latter accused
him of murdering children on beaches. “When it comes to killing,”
he fulminated in front of television cameras that ensured maximum
publicity, “you know it too well.” Peres was too polite or too slow
to answer that Turkey has killed Armenians and Kurds in far greater
numbers than Israel has killed Arabs in all its wars put together.

This staged incident gave Erdogan the requisite Muslim credentials
in Iran and Arab countries, and he has followed up by sponsoring
Islamists trying to run the Gaza blockade from Turkish ports.

As though claiming sovereignty over lost Ottoman lands, Erdogan
boasted after his electoral victory this June, “Believe me, Sarajevo
won today as much as Istanbul. Beirut won as much as Izmir, Damascus
won as much as Ankara, Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, the West Bank,
Jerusalem won as much as Diyarbakir.”

Surprisingly, he seems not to have anticipated the immense
repercussions on the Middle East of today’s Arab uprisings. At first,
he dismissed the Syrian turmoil as “a domestic issue.” His foreign
minister spoke of “ties of trust” with the regime of Bashar Assad.

Turkey was thus in step with the Iranian ayatollahs who have turned
Syria into a protectorate so vital to the spread of their Islamism
that they are willing to protect its regime at any cost.

Turkey shares a border of 500 miles with Syria. Bashar, his murderous
brother Maher, and their thugs have killed many innocent people and
driven thousands more to flee into Turkey. The uprising might spread
unstoppably, the Kurds might take advantage of it, Israel could become
involved. Fear of instability is more powerful than Muslim solidarity.

Thus, in an abrupt and complete reversal of policy, Erdogan has
rounded on Iran and its Syrian client: He suddenly resorted to strong
language about the barbarism and savagery let loose on the far side
of the frontier, and he has permitted Syrian dissidents to hold a
conference in Antalya.

Angry ayatollahs in Tehran are warning ominously that a Turkey taking
this position is a rival and will face serious resistance from Iran,
Iraq, and Syria. As though he really were a sultan, Erdogan finds
himself in a reprise of the historic confrontation when Ottomans and
Iranians fought one another to a standstill on imperial, sectarian,
and ethnic grounds, with Arabs everywhere from Egypt to Mesopotamia
obliged to submit to the victor. Whether it’s Turkey or Iran that
ends up as the dominant power over Syria will define the Middle East
for years to come.

RUSSIAN PUNDIT SEES ETHNIC, CAUCASUS ISSUES LEADING TO “SYSTEMIC DISASTER”

by Yuliya Latynina
Yezhednevnyy Zhurnal
July 12 2011
Russia

Among the people/Dear Russian citiziens”: “A hybrid of Kushchevka and the Manezh

[translated from Russian]

I actually already formulated this very simple rule once: where drivers
are not in the habit of obeying road markers, speed limits, and signs,
traffic is regulated by the lamp post. Which the especially lively
ones crash into.

A typical example is Matvey Urin, the owner of a bunch of small
money-laundering banks, who ordered his bodyguards to beat up a
Dutchman who had cut him off. It is not known how many times Urin
had done this, but on this occasion the Dutchman turned out to be
Putin’s son-in-law. Urin went to jail.

Another example is the village of Kushchevka. The Tsapok gang lived
there and instilled fear in all the villagers. They murdered and raped
and confiscated land. Everyone knew it. Everyone was silenced. If
someone complained, he wound up in jail or in the cemetery. On his
desk, they say, Tsapok had photographs of the owner of the house
embracing Tkachev; however, it was not the kray governor, but his
brother.

And then one day they sent out interns to kill a farmer that they
were sick of. But it turned out to be a whole company there. And this
happened at the height of the Khodorkovskiy trial. But Moscow, which
urgently needed something to knock down the subject of Khodorkovskiy,
could not have cared less about the connections of some guy named
Tsapok. And Tsapok went to jail. (It is true that the system is now
taking its revenge – the gang members are being let out one by one:
Tsepovyaz has already been released).

Attention, here is a question: imagine that Urin was a Caucasian and
the victim was not Putin’s son-in-law but, say, a girl blogger. That
would turn out to be the lamp post, only already ideally suited for
the slogan “F-ck the Caucasus,” which is sounding louder and louder
these days.

Or imagine that Tsapok had an Armenian, not a Slavic name, which
can easily happen in Krasnodar Kray. Do you picture it? The Manezh
is resting.

Really, the same thing as in Kushchevka happened in the Ural town of
Sagra. The locals attacked a Gypsy who was selling drugs, and he sent
15 cars full of Azeris to get even. (By the way, this is very typical
for Azeris – I think it would be hard to find 15 cars of Chechens or
Dagestanis to settle scores for the drug-selling Gypsy.) Along the
way the Azeris shot up a car full of pensioner-gardeners and beat up
a motorcyclist.

Well, maybe they would not have killed anyone in the town. Maybe
they would only have beaten them up, but the cops – who, judging by
their statements, consider it a matter of honour to cover the drug
dealer and the dead nephew of a thief in the law – would have shut
the townspeople’s mouths.

But the inhabitants of the town met the troublemakers with gunfire, and
then ran to the City without Drugs Foundation. And Yevgeniy Royzman,
the director of the Foundation, is one of the few people whose voice
is listened to in Russia. And he is a man who has earned the right
to call scum scum. And what came about was a hybrid of Kushchevka
and the Manezh.

The ethnic question and the Caucasian question are more and more
turning into a systemic disaster. This is a matter of the survival
of the Putin regime. The regime understands this but it cannot do
anything, like a gaping motorist cannot get out of a snowdrift on ice.

It cannot do anything or three reasons. For one, the vegetative nervous
system of the contemporary government is organized in such a way that
the precinct officer or lieutenant in the local area reacts to just
two stimuli: money and administrative resources. The drug dealer,
the thief in the law, and the big-time Chechen in the big car with
the license plate KRA (Kadyrov, Ramzan Akhmatovich) have both the one
and the other, but the ordinary patsies do not have either, so every
time the victim proves to be “non-Russian,” the question arises in
its full glory.

For two, the government itself persistently encouraged fascism in
its ugliest forms. Already during the investigation of the murder
of Markelov and Baburova testimony was heard to the effect that the
murderers’ overseer had ties to the president’s staff. And judging
by everything, these ties were not terminated after the murders. The
name of this same person surfaced again after the search phase of the
case of the assault on Kommersant journalist Oleg Kashin was completed.

For three, a source of blind irritation to the Russian nationalists
(and not just the nationalists) is the ever-increasing might of the
Chechen authorities. Ramzan Kadyrov won the war between Russia and
Chechnya. The existence of Kadyrov is the only reason that acts of
terrorism occur in Moscow once a year, not once a month. Therefore
Kadyrov is untouchable and irreplaceable. Both he and his entourage
know very well: the untouchable always becomes the all-powerful.

The Russian authorities have no way out of this impasse. They drove
themselves into it. They were driven there by the total collapse of
the law enforcement system. By the encouraging of fascists and other
Seliger types, by the ceaseless cries of “enemies surrounding us.”

They were driven there, finally, by their Caucasus policy, which comes
down to paying tribute to Chechnya in exchange for tranquillity in
Moscow and it comes down to absolute chaos and growth of the influence
of extremists in all the other republics where Moscow cannot uphold
the law and fears the creation of a strong leader equal in greatness
to Kadyrov.

The only medicine against fascism (and this means fascism from both
sides, for Caucasian fascism is just as much a problem as Russian
fascism) is to create normal silovoy [security] structures that work
to protect citizens’ rights and to uphold the law.

Russia should fight drug trafficking and the Gypsy who was dealing in
Sagra should get 20 years, not summon his punitive detachments. Russia
should have a special service capable of fighting the terrorists, and
it should not be necessary to subcontract this to Ramzan Kadyrov. The
country should have a normal army that, if necessary, can be sent to
the Caucasus to restore law and order, not to cause a bloodbath.

In other words, Russia should have a state, not a gang of crooks who
work to secure the financial interests of the Gunvor Company and its
ilk and allow their minions to feed off everything else.

U.S PRESIDENT UNDERSCORES COMMITMENT TO HELP PARTIES TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT TO ACHIEVE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT

Trend Daily News
July 14, 2011 Thursday 10:23 AM GMT +4
Azerbaijan

United States President Barack Obama thanked Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov on his visit to Washington for his efforts in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. The president emphasized the
commitment of the U.S., as a co-chair state of the OSCE Minsk Group,
to achieve a framework agreement in the conflict, the White House’s
website reported.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

THREE ARMENIANS CONVICTED IN GEORGIA

news.am
July 15 2011
Armenia

TBILISI. – City court of Tbilisi finished hearings of a criminal case
of three citizens of Armenia. Armen Sargsyan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan,
and Karen Karapetyan were convicted for six years of imprisonment
for using false plastic cards, apsny.ge reports.

The three convicted men bought several mobile phones and laptops from
Tbilisi stores with false international plastic bank cards. All false
cards were confiscated during the search.

FOUR PERCENT GDP GROWTH UNLIKELY TO RESULT IN SPECIAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FORMER CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR

/ ARKA /
July 14, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, July 14. / ARKA /. Armenian economy will expand this year by
4 percent, but that growth is unlikely to result in special economic
activity, former chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, Bagrat
Asatryan, told a news conference today.

“This is because the business environment in Armenia is in poor
condition and can not contribute to economic progress”, he said.

According to him, with this pace of economic growth it will take at
least two years for the economy to reach the pre-crisis level.

Asatryan believes that the solution of socio-economic problems will
contribute to the implementation of comprehensive reforms especially
in the tax system that needs an overhaul.

“However, the reform program of the government has not yet been
approved,” he said.

According to 2011 budget projection, the GDP will grow 4.6%.

PROTEST ACTIONS IN FRONT OF ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 14, 2011 – 12:22 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The action of protest is carried out in front of
the government building including people from various groups such as
ecologists, traders, disabled persons from aviation field, as well as
parents of killed soldiers. Among protesters, there also are people
who were deceived by not compensating value of their houses demolished
on Northern Avenue, Yerevan.

All of them demand from authorities to here them out and assist
their problems.

PRESS RELEASE
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
Tel: +(3741) 56 01 06 ext. 105
Fax: +(3741) 52 15 05
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:

15 July 2011

Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s British affiliate sponsors complete renovation
of Pediatric Department at Kapan Medical Center

Yerevan, July 15, 2011 – Thanks to a U.S. $1 million grant bequeathed by
British-Armenian benefactor Garabed Nazarian, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
is carrying out a complete renovation of the Kapan Medical Center’s
Pediatric Department, located in Armenia’s Syunik Region.

Within the framework of the project, the two-story, 1960s-built Pediatric
Department has been thoroughly redesigned and undergone major repairs and a
general structural reinforcement. In addition to the replacement of
inter-story wood panels with concrete sections, a new roof was built, the
water and sewer systems have been upgraded, and new heating and
air-conditioning systems were installed. Furthermore, restrooms have been
built next to all patient rooms. Currently a new boiler room, capable of
serving the entire hospital, is being built while crews continue to renovate
the interior and exterior of the Pediatric Department and update the
landscaping.

Featuring rehabilitation and intensive-therapy units, the Pediatric
Department provides care to children with somatic illnesses. The renovation
of the facility will also enable it to include a newborn-resuscitation unit.
Today the department employs a medical staff of 15 and treats between 400
and 500 children annually. According to Dr. Smbat Orbelyan, chief physician
at the Pediatric Department, the facility will be able to considerably
expand its range of newborn care if it receives support for hiring a
resuscitation specialist. Dr. Orbelyan added that children from neighboring
Kajaran and Meghri likewise receive medical care at the Pediatric
Department.

“For the past several years, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s British
affiliate has used the contributions of the local community mainly toward
the development of Armenia’s healthcare sector,” says affiliate chair Armine
Karapeti. “Indeed, our donors share a fundamental belief that the vitality
of our nation depends first and foremost on the health of each individual.”

Once the renovation of the Pediatric Department is completed, the Hayastan
All-Armenian Fund will provide the facility with furniture, medical
equipment, and an ambulance.

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Hayastan All Armenian Fund

1ST ARTSAKH CUP VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT KICKS OFF IN KARABAKH

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 14, 2011 – 18:17 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The 1st Artsakh Cup Volleyball Tournament launched
in Karabakh.

Welcoming tournament participants, the President of the Republic of
Artsakh Bako Sahakyan noted, “this event has a great significance
for our republic, as sport is among the best means of upbringing
the younger generation and preserving the nation’s gene pool. For
this very reason particular importance is given to the development
of sports and physical culture in our republic. Within this context,
close cooperation with the Defense Army is of special significance. It
is no coincidence that the deputy defense minister heads the volleyball
federation in our country.”

“I hope that you will show a beautiful game,” the President said,
stressing that such contests assist to the development of physical
and mental abilities, strengthening unity of different segments of
the Armenian people.

ARMENIAN HOSPITALS, KINDERGARTENS ATTACKED DURING IMPOSED WAR – ENVOY TO UN

news.am
July 14 2011
Armenia

Use of force or threat of force during armed conflicts is unacceptable,
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said during the annual Security
Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict.

The UN Secretary General and representatives of 50 member states,
including the Armenian delegation, delivered reports during the July
12 debates.

In his statement Armenia’s envoy to UN Garen Nazarian stressed that
the topic is urgent for Armenia as a problem of security.

He recalled that back in early 90s as a result of imposed war Armenia
gave shelter to tens of thousands of Armenian children refugees against
who brutal force was used. Hospitals, kindergartens and schools were
regularly attacked by the aggressor.

The ambassador added that the UN Security Council must focus on those
using force and violence against children to impose relevant sanctions.

FREE TRADE ZONE INFRASTRUCTURE FUNCTIONING AT YEREVAN’S AIRPORT

news.am
July 14 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN.- New cold storage complex is already functioning at the
Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport, said managing director of “Armenia”
International Airports CJSC Marcelo Wende.

Marcelo Wende and Armenian Economy Minister Tigran Davtyan signed an
agreement to establish a free trade zone in the territory adjacent
to the airport.

Minister Davtyan said three free trade zones will be set up in Armenia.

“Armenia” International Airports CJSC takes on commitment to create
infrastructure, while the government will provide necessary documents.

The main investments will be made by private companies.