{"id":14900,"date":"2009-09-24T20:18:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:44:31","slug":"armenian-academicians-back-deal-with-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/09\/24\/armenian-academicians-back-deal-with-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Academicians Back Deal With Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.rferl.org\/A5CC9853-9FF9-4BDC-B71C-A59A66E38DED_w393_s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>Armenia &#8212; The headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/div>\n<div>24.09.2009<\/div>\n<p><span>Armenia\u2019s National Academy of Sciences officially expressed support on Thursday for the government\u2019s policy of rapprochement with Turkey and the recently publicized Turkish-Armenian relations in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>The state-funded institution, which rarely challenges government decisions, discussed the matter at a special meeting of its top decision-making body, the General Assembly, held late Wednesday. The meeting, attended by more than 150 members of the academy and directors of its research institutes, took place behind the closed doors. Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian also took part in the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists were only allowed to be present at the opening remarks made by Radik Martirosian, the president of the Academy. He was reported to claim that public attitudes towards the two draft protocols on the normalization of Armenia\u2019s relations with Turkey have been \u201cmainly positive\u201d despite existing \u201cconcerns\u201d about some of their provisions.<\/p>\n<p>Martirosian noted that all Armenian presidents sought to mend times with Turkey but that only Serzh Sarkisian has managed to achieve major progress with his \u201cdynamic and active foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued the next day, the academy\u2019s press service said the meeting overwhelmingly adopted a resolution welcoming Sarkisian\u2019s efforts to \u201csettle relations with neighbors and get Armenia out of the [Turkish] blockade.\u201d \u201cIt is said in the resolution that the normalization of relations with Turkey and the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border without preconditions would contribute to the strengthening of Armenia\u2019s geopolitical positions,\u201d the statement said. The agreements allow for the \u201ccontinuation of that policy,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The academy meeting was part of \u201cinternal political consultations\u201d which Ankara and Yerevan have pledged to undertake before signing the deal next month. Sarkisian discussed the sensitive issue with leaders of 52 political parties mostly loyal to him last week.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/a\/1835693.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia &#8212; The headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences. 24.09.2009 Armenia\u2019s National Academy of Sciences officially expressed support on Thursday for the government\u2019s policy of rapprochement with Turkey and the recently publicized Turkish-Armenian relations in particular. The state-funded institution, which rarely challenges government decisions, discussed the matter at a special meeting of its top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,89],"tags":[2129],"class_list":["post-14900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-turkey","tag-turkey-and-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}