YEREVAN, MAY 29, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he hopes that the Armenian-Turkish normalization process will continue normally after the presidential election in Turkey.

“We hope that after the presidential election in Turkey we will be able to continue the process of normalizing our relations with Turkey normally. This is also one of the highly important items on our agenda,” Pashinyan told lawmakers at a joint committee session for preliminary debates of the 2022 government budget report.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected to a third term after defeating his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in a runoff election on Sunday.

Erdogan secured 52.14% of the vote while Kilicdaroglu’s garnered 47.86%, Turkish Supreme Election Council chairman Ahmet Yener told reporters.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan congratulated Erdogan on his reelection.