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YEREVAN, AUGUST 25, ARMENPRESS: Armenia's assessments overestimated Turkey's preparedness in regulation issue of Armenian-Turkish relations, Deputy Director of Armenian Genocide-Institute, specialist of eastern studies Suren Manukyan said, referring to withdrawal of Armenian-Turkish protocols from the agenda. According to him, we imagined about preparedness of Turkey more, than it was in reality. "Turkey, eventually, did not accept the protocols with delight from the beginning and even did not show artificially that it is for them. That is why, according to the law, a convenient occasion appeared to withdraw those protocols from the agenda. I think those protocols stayed in the Turkish parliament in the conditions of foreign pressure," Suren Manukyan said.
According to him, actually Armenia managed to win the respect of international community. "Turkey has never wished to sign those protocols, just being quite a sophisticated player of international policy, did not wish to rule out at once, realizing that international pressure can be even stronger. During this period Turkey just gained time. Turkey said that "no" during two years," the specialist of eastern studies said. According to him, in political regard, currently the protocols are documents which do not have any value, and it is already the decision of Armenian political authorities how to behave with the protocols at the Armenian parlaimnet.