Ruben Melkonyan: Turkish-Kurdish clashes are getting civic nature

YEREVAN, JULY 28, ARMENPRESS: In the Turkish-Kurdish clashes the concern is raised not only with the fact of their existence but the extended geography, Turkologist Ruben Melkonyan said in the conversation with Armenpress, noting that if previously such clashes were limited with the eastern sector of Turkey now they occur in Antalya, Bursa and which is more remarkable in Istanbul. These clashes take place when the passions grow connected with the constitutional changes and it sharpens the situation more.

“Another interesting circumstance is that the clashes are not limited only between Kurdish armed people and Turkish soldiers but they are of civic nature which may become a basis for civil war,” R. Melkonyan said. He also added that July 27 one of the co-leaders of the Kurdish “Peace and Democracy” party stated that if the authorities will not be able to stop the clashes they will have to do it on their own. From July 25 till today 10-11 Turkish soldiers were killed, and nothing is said about the victims among the peaceful population.