The others have been added to the three well-known preconditions of Turkey, and from this point of view there is no positive change, said Ruben Melkonyan, a Turkologist and dean of the YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, said during the discussion organized by the Security and Democracy NGO entitled “Armenia-Turkey: Reconciliation Under Bayraktars.””Recognize Artsakh as a part of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity or renounce Artsakh. This condition has not changed now.
According to Turkey, it will establish relations with Armenia if the latter recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Is this a positive message?” he asked. Ruben Melkonyan said that Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia has long recognized the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and thus distorts the facts, because Armenia has never recognized Artsakh as part of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. “The Turks consider that a positive message from Pashinyan.
Turkey demands that Armenia refuse international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The previous Armenian authorities did not even discuss this issue. The claim that this happened in the Armenian-Turkish protocols is a lie, our red lines were not in them, including the issue of genocide. Now they ‘heroically’ criticize the stage of the Armenian-Turkish protocols and describe it as bad, while it was one of our successful diplomatic stages. No matter how much populism overdoses this government, history will put everything in its place.” According to the Turkologist, Turkish President Erdogan’s wording is that relations will be established if Armenia stops spreading hostility based on the past.
“He means the international recognition of the genocide. And Pashinyan gives a message that the issue of the Armenian Cause is the issue of the Diaspora, that is, Armenia rejects this issue, and from Turkey’s point of view, this is a positive message.” He stressed that there is an important historical nuance here. “Turkey demands recognition of its territorial integrity. No Armenian government has said that it has a land claim from Turkey, but there is an important episode here. The Kars agreement between Armenia and Turkey is considered an illegal agreement, and Armenia has never recognized that agreement.
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Turkey does not demand that we recognize its current border, but says recognize the border, the Treaty of Kars. The Armenian government has not recognized the Kars agreement, has not announced that it will recognize it, but said that it recognizes the current border. There is ‘Sevres Syndrome’ in Turkey, but there is also ‘Kars Complex,’ which in different years has given Turkey an opportunity to demand that the Kars Treaty be recognized. Now the Armenian government says that it has never had a land claim. Yes, we did not, but we never recognized the Treaty of Kars. Satan is in the details.”
Luiza Sukiasyan
