{"id":16553,"date":"2010-01-19T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:44:32","slug":"turkey-claims-armenian-preconditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/01\/19\/turkey-claims-armenian-preconditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Claims Armenian \u2018Preconditions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Azerbaijan — Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign minister of Turkey, in Baku, 26May2009<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
19.01.2010<\/div>\n
Tigran Avetisian<\/div>\n

Turkey has accused Armenia of setting \u201cunacceptable\u201d preconditions for normalizing bilateral ties, citing the Armenian Constitutional Court\u2019s interpretation of the ground-breaking agreements signed by the two estranged nations. (UPDATED)<\/p>\n

\nOfficial Yerevan expressed on Tuesday its \u201cbewilderment\u201d with the claim, suggesting that the Turkish government might be seeking a new excuse to delay the parliamentary ratification of the agreements.<\/p>\n

The court upheld on January 12 the legality of the two protocols that commit Ankara to establish diplomatic relations with Yerevan and open the Turkish-Armenian boarder. In an apparent response to domestic criticism of the deal, it also indicated that the documents can not have any bearing on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict or inhibit Armenia\u2019s pursuit of greater international recognition of the Armenian genocide.<\/p>\n

The ruling specifically mentioned Armenia\u2019s 1990 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union that refers to the \u201cgenocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and Western Armenia.\u201d The opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), the most vocal detractor of the deal, has construed that as a de facto invalidation of key provisions of the protocols. The nationalist party wants the Armenian parliament to ratify them with corresponding \u201creservations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Turkish Foreign Ministry offered late on Monday a similar interpretation of the Constitutional Court ruling. \u201cIt has been observed that this decision contains preconditions and restrictive provisions which impair the letter and spirit of the Protocols,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe said decision undermines the very reason for negotiating these Protocols as well as their fundamental objective. This approach cannot be accepted on our part,\u201d the ministry said without elaboration.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkey, in line with its accustomed allegiance to its international commitments, maintains its adherence to the primary provisions of these Protocols. We expect the same allegiance from the Armenian Government,\u201d added the statement.<\/p>\n

Successive Turkish governments have longed portrayed the reference to \u201cWestern Armenia\u201d as proof of Armenian claims to areas in eastern Turkey that were populated by many Armenians until their 1915-1918 mass killings and deportations. Dashnaktsutyun likewise believes that the 1990 declaration, which is mentioned in the Armenian constitution\u2019s preamble, bars Yerevan from explicitly recognizing the existing Turkish-Armenian border.<\/p>\n

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Switzerland — Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2ndR) and his Armenian counterpart Eduard Nalbandiana (2nd L) shake hands as they hold signed documents after a signing ceremony, Zurich, 10Oct2009<\/p><\/div>\n

In a written statement issued late on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said he will phone his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, to \u201cexpress my bewilderment and clarify where exactly Turkish side sees preconditions and just how the decision by Armenia\u2019s Constitutional Court contradicts the fundamental objectives of the protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that with such a statement the Turkish side is not trying to justify its continuous attempts to set preconditions and disguise an undue stalling of the process of protocol ratification,\u201d warned Nalbandian.<\/p>\n

Armenia\u2019s leadership has repeatedly accused the Turks of acting against the letter and spirit of the Turkish-Armenian agreements with statements linking their implementation to the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. President Serzh Sarkisian warned last month that Yerevan will walk away from the deal if Ankara fails to ratify it \u201cwithin a reasonable time frame.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Azerbaijan — Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign minister of Turkey, in Baku, 26May2009 19.01.2010 Tigran Avetisian Turkey has accused Armenia of setting \u201cunacceptable\u201d preconditions for normalizing bilateral ties, citing the Armenian Constitutional Court\u2019s interpretation of the ground-breaking agreements signed by the two estranged nations. (UPDATED) Official Yerevan expressed on Tuesday its \u201cbewilderment\u201d with the claim, suggesting that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,89],"tags":[2129],"class_list":["post-16553","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\/16553","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=16553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}