The newspaper writes that at the delegation's meetings on not discussing the so-called Armenian genocide in the U.S. Congress, parliamentarians from AKP promised: "The borders with Armenia will open after the local elections in Turkey."
The delegation included Murat Mercan, Suat Kiniklioglu, Nursuna Memecan from AKP, Mithat Melen from MHP and Sukru Elekdag from CHP.
"Parliamentarians from AKP said the borders would open after March 29 (local elections). They said the negotiations with Armenia were on the last stage and that any decision of the U.S. Congress would have negative influence on the relations. I told them not to say so. But they said agreement would be reached in connection with this," Elekdag said.
Parliamentarian from AKP Nursuna Memecan refuted the claims and said: "the presidents are meeting." "During the meetings we said Turkey and Armenia had been negotiating for a year and underlined that negotiations were also being held with Azerbaijan. The presidents of all three countries are dealing with it. If in this stage the US passes a decision, it will have a negative influence," Memecan said. Nursuna Memecan confirmed that they said the negotiations between Turkey and Armenia were on the last stage.
But we did not say "we will open borders after the local elections."
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