{"id":23007,"date":"2010-10-06T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=23007"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:47:23","slug":"yerevan-denies-more-turkish-armenian-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/06\/yerevan-denies-more-turkish-armenian-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Denies More Turkish-Armenian Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.rferl.org\/7C1272A9-ADE0-416F-8998-7F2A13D74AB7_w527_s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Armenia -- Turkish and Armenian flags fly alongside each other during an international sporting event in Yerevan, undated.\" \/>Armenia &#8212; Turkish and Armenian flags fly alongside each other during an international sporting event in Yerevan, undated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>06.10.2010<\/div>\n<div>Astghik Bedevian, Gevorg Stamboltsian<\/div>\n<p>Armenia and Turkey have held no fresh negotiations since the effective collapse of their normalization agreements, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian insisted on Wednesday, denying statements to the contrary attributed to his Turkish and Swiss counterparts.<\/p>\n<div>\n\u201cThere have been no phone conversations or meetings with the Turkish side in recent months, and no such things are planned for the near future,\u201d Nalbandian told parliament during its regular question-and-answer session with the Armenian government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Armenia has officially stated before, it will be possible to move forward only when Turkey is again ready for a normalization of our relations without preconditions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey of Switzerland, which has acted as a facilitator in the Turkish-Armenian fence-mending negotiations, reportedly said last week that Ankara and Yerevan are currently holding \u201cactive consultations\u201d over ways of kick-starting their stalled rapprochement. \u201cSwitzerland is determined to move the process forward,\u201d she told Armenia\u2019s visiting parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian, according to the latter\u2019s press office.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu likewise told journalists in Ankara on Monday that the Turkish-Armenian dialogue \u201cnever stopped.\u201d He pointed to his talks with Calmy-Rey held in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Davutoglu added that Turkish-Armenian relations were also on the agenda of his separate meeting in New York with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Elmar Mammadyarov. \u201cFor us, Azerbaijan is a brotherly state of special significance,\u201d he was reported to says. \u201cAs for Armenia, we will make every effort to restore good-neighborly ties with that country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a recent speech at Harvard University, Davutoglu made clear that Ankara continues to link Turkish parliamentary ratification of the Turkish-Armenian normalization \u201cprotocols\u201d signed last year with a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict acceptable to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian side has repeatedly rejected this \u201cprecondition.\u201d President Serzh Sarkisian accused the Turks of reneging on the deal as he freeze the protocol ratification process in the Armenian parliament in April.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/a\/2182802.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia &#8212; Turkish and Armenian flags fly alongside each other during an international sporting event in Yerevan, undated. 06.10.2010 Astghik Bedevian, Gevorg Stamboltsian Armenia and Turkey have held no fresh negotiations since the effective collapse of their normalization agreements, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian insisted on Wednesday, denying statements to the contrary attributed to his Turkish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,89],"tags":[2129],"class_list":["post-23007","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\/23007","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=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}