“Kurdish initiative” proposed by the Turkish government, as well as protocols signed with Armenia created concerns inside the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). A group of parliamentarians in the party expected to issue statement against the government’s policy because its actions toward the solution of Kurdish and Armenian problems put Turkey face to face with a number of challenges, APA Turkish bureau reports.
The government’s policy called as “Kurdish initiative” or “democratic initiative” intensified tensions in some regions of the country and life-sentenced leader of the terrorist organization tries to use it to ease his situation. Despite that the protocols signed with Armenia are linked with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, it Armenia unlikely have an intention to leave the occupied Azerbaijani lands. It creates coldness in the Turkish-Azerbaijani relations and Armenian Diaspora in the West didn’t leave its claims against Turkey. Even Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan threatens to appeal the international legal institutions if the protocols are not ratified.
According to reliable sources, after the meeting with US president Barack Obama Prime Minister Erdogan hinted that the ratification of the protocols signed with Armenia depend on the free will of the Turkish lawmakers, which aim to ease concerns of the AKP activists. Ankara conditioned the ratification of the protocols with the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied Azerbaijani lands. But Turkey put forward the phrase of “free will of the parliament” as a counterattack against the possible pressures from the West, particularly from the United States.
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