Ara Gochunyan: Turkish ruling party’s internal issues not to have impact on Armenian community of Istanbul
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YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS. Issues within Turkish ruling “Justice and Development” party will not have an impact on the Armenian community of Istanbul, chief editor of Istanbul “Zhamanak” newspaper Ara Gochunyan said this during an interview with journalists in the “Armenpress” press hall.
“Issues and changes within the ruling party cannot have neither positive, nor negative influence on the Armenian community. Today there is no ruling crisis in Turkey, simply the political figures should change, whereas the community issues and their solutions have no direct link with the internal political events”, Ara Gochunyan said.
Referring to the issue of recent misunderstandings between Erdogan and Davutoglu, Gochunyan said this is associated with taking some powers from Davutoglu.
“The head of the party had the right to appoint party branches leaders. At the party convention everybody already were saying that they are the faithful partners of Erdogan. Even a petition was carried out without informing Prime Minister according to which head of the party did not have the power to appoint leaders of party branches. This power was transferred to the party council. This was the point that tensions arose between Erdogan and Davutoglu”, he said. Ara Gochunyan stated that there is little possibility that external political factors were on the basis of this tension.
“Prime Minister-President tandem have always existed in the international issues which in many cases showed effective results. European leaders are well aware of Erdogan’s weight”, he said.
In response to questions how it is possible the formation of new opposition or fragmentation of the ruling party after Davutoglu-Erdogan incident, Ara Gochunyan said former high-ranking officials still remain within the ruling party and if they try to move against Erdogan, in this case the fragmentation is theoretically possible. However, Erdogan dominates.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davotuglu announced on May 5 that he resigns from the head of “Justice and Development” party’s position.