Armenian-Russian agreement may facilitate normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations

August 24, 2010 - 17:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of European Integration NGO Karen Bekaryan said that the Armenian-Russian agreement may facilitate normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations. “As soon as Turks conceive that they will gain nothing through animosity with Armenia, they will revise their policy towards Yerevan. Meanwhile, the Armenian-Russian agreement may bring closer this moment,” Bekaryan told a press conference in Yerevan.

He thinks that there are still hopes that Turkey will understand the current situation, though all demarcation lines are already established in the region and the Armenian-Turkish process has no prospects. “However, in addition to its relations with Armenia, Turkey faces also other problems – the upcoming referendum, parliamentary elections of 2011 and withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Iran, what will lead to worsening of the Kurdish problem,” concluded Karen Bekaryan.