Manvel Ghumashyan: Turkey tries to turn Armenian-Turkish protocols into an object of trade

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS:

Turkey tries to turn Armenian-Turkish protocols into an object of trade, political expert Manvel Ghumashyan told today a news conference, referring to the Turkish step of recalling of the protocols to the parliament.

According to the political expert, we should not expect an essential change in the process of ratification of the protocols in the nearest future. He said that there were two extreme opinions in regard to the protocols: the first is that they gave nothing, and the second is that they showed one more time what a Turkish diplomacy means.

"As before, now too, when the protocols have been recalled to the parliament, Turkey will attempt to turn them into an object of trade," Mr. Ghumashyan said.

In his opinion, Turkey will try to keep the protocols in a suspended state till 2015 – 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, but the expert also does not rule out other scenarios of development of the processes.