Ankara Sends Message to Yerevan: No link Between Genocide Resolution and Protocols?

Since the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs narrowly passed H.Res.252 recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Ankara is sending the first message to Yerevan — though an unofficial one.

Ankara, highlighting that the adoption of the Genocide Resolution and the ratification of Armenia-Turkey Protocols are independent processes, mentions that the Protocols are not “dead” and expects that Yerevan will take some steps regarding the ruling by Armenia’s Constitutional Court, reports Today’s Zaman, citing anonymous diplomatic sources.

According to the Turkish publication, sources say that the ratification of the Protocols will continue, adding that what Ankara expects from Yerevan in relation to the Constitutional Court’s ruling is written guarantees or a political obligation.

At the same time, the paper recalls that after the adoption of Armenian Genocide Resolution the Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister and his assistant went to Russia and presented Turkey’s expectations on the Nagorno-Karabakh resolution and also discussed possible ways to secure progress in the settlement of this conflict.