Signing of the Turkey-Armenia protocols is not in favor of Turkey, Turkish
“Signing of the Turkey-Armenia protocols is detrimental to the Turkish national principles,” Yilmaz said.
On Oct. 21, the Turkish parliament launched discussions on the Armenian-Turkish protocol.
During the speech by the MP from the ruling Justice and Development Party of Turkey Omer Chelik, MPs from the opposition left the meeting hall of Parliament as protest.
Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward Nalbandian signed the protocols Ankara-Yerevan in Zurich on October 10.
Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey have been broken due to Armenia’s claims of an alleged genocide, and its occupation of Azerbaijani lands. The border between them has been broken since 1993.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in December 1991. In
Earlier, representatives of the Turkish government claimed that opening of the Turkish-Armenian border cannot be topic of discussion, until Armenia withdraw its troops from the occupied Azerbaijani lands.
BAKU LOOKS AT ANKARA WITH SUSPICION: SUKRU ELEKDAG
The Turkish-Armenian protocols have harmed the Turkey-Azerbaijan relations, MP from the Republican Peoples Party Shukru Elekdag said, TRT 3 TV Channel reported.
Today Baku looks at Ankara with suspicion, Elekdag said.
On Oct. 21, the Turkish parliament launched discussions on the Armenian-Turkish protocols.
The MP despite the fact that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised not to open the Turkish-Armenian border until the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is resolved, he signed protocols on normalizing relations with Armenia.
This caused crisis in the Ankara-Baku relations, Elekdag added.
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