{"id":17135,"date":"2010-02-26T21:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=17135"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:48:24","slug":"shukru-elekdag-on-protocols-between-turkey-and-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/02\/26\/shukru-elekdag-on-protocols-between-turkey-and-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shukru Elekdag on protocols between Turkey and Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ 26 Feb 2010 17:16\u00a0]<br \/>\n<strong>Baku. Mahbuba Gasimbayli \u2013 APA. \u201cThe delegation of the members of Turkish parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs Commission will leave for Washington on Sunday on the eve of the discussion of the resolution on the so-called Armenian genocide in the U.S. Congress on March 5.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I represent our party in the delegation. We will hold a meeting in the Committee on foreign Affairs and try to impede the discussion of the \u201cArmenian genocide\u201d resolution,\u201d member of Turkish parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs Commission, former Turkish ambassador to Washington, former undersecretary at the Foreign Ministry, parliamentarian from Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) Shukru Elekdag told APA.<\/p>\n<p>To the question \u201cIt seems this time the situation is not pleasant\u201d Elekdag said:<br \/>\n\u201cArmenian Constitutional Court rewrote the protocols signed in Zurich on October 11. It is impossible to explain differently the court\u2019s comments on the protocols. After that it will be difficult for Turkey to say \u201cThere was no genocide\u201d. To admit the decision of Armenian Constitutional Court means to admit Armenia\u2019s Declaration of Independence. In that declaration Armenia does not recognize Turkey\u2019s borders and has claims for our eastern territories. We should work hard to bring the Khojaly genocide to the attention of the world, while Armenians try to raise \u201cgenocide\u201d claims in the Congress. The most large-scale genocide by Armenians in the past 105 years was committed against our Azerbaijani brothers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Answering the question \u201cWould you like the Azerbaijani parliamentarians to be with you during your meetings in the Congress?\u201d the diplomat underlined the importance of joint struggle.<br \/>\n\u201cThe only way to achieve peace in the region is the complete withdrawal of Armenians from the occupied Azerbaijani territories. No other way will cause the discussions between Turkey and Armenia and it will become difficult to establish peace in the region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/news.php?id=116958\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ 26 Feb 2010 17:16\u00a0] Baku. Mahbuba Gasimbayli \u2013 APA. \u201cThe delegation of the members of Turkish parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs Commission will leave for Washington on Sunday on the eve of the discussion of the resolution on the so-called Armenian genocide in the U.S. Congress on March 5. I represent our party in the delegation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,89,34],"tags":[2317,2129],"class_list":["post-17135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-turkey","category-usa","tag-genocide-resolution","tag-turkey-and-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135","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=17135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}