Two protocols on rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey are among 898 pieces of legislation that have fallen off the Turkish parliament's agenda.
The term of the protocols in the Grand National Assembly has expired, according to Turkish newspaper Merhaba Gazetesi.
Legislation which has not been approved during the term of the National Assembly automatically expires. The new parliament, which took office last month, has not placed a vote on the protocols on its agenda.
Turkish law, however, does allow for a bill to be restored to the agenda at the request of the government or members of parliament, Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkey and Armenia signed the two protocols on normalizing relations in October 2009, but rapprochement stalled in 2010 when both the Turkish and Armenian parliaments refused to ratify the protocols.
On 22 April 2010 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan suspended the ratification process, accusing Turkey of placing conditions on ratification.
The Turkish leadership has said several times that normalization is possible only when Armenia withdraws its troops from the occupied Azerbaijani land of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts.
Meanwhile, Armenian nationalist politician Giro Manoyan, head of the central Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, has accused Turkey of not taking the protocols seriously.
"The last Turkish parliament did nothing on these protocols. Turkey strongly indicated that it was not satisfied with the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions. Moreover, it openly stated that normalization as such will not take place until the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Manoyan told News.am on 22 August.
He accused the Turkish side of not even complying with the required procedures on the protocols.
Manoyan said the position of the Armenian authorities was humiliating, as they were waiting for Turkey to ratify the protocols. He said that that Turkey would probably put the protocols back on the agenda later.
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