Turkey Hopes Revitalize Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement: Namik Tan

Turkey hopes that the meeting between the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan in the framework of the World Nuclear Security Summit, to be held in Washington from April 12-13, can reanimate efforts aimed at the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations, Turkey’s ambassador to US Namik Tan was reported by Associated Press as saying.

“We have received some satisfactory messages. I hope that a new page will open in the [normalization] process,” said Tan, commenting on Armenia-Turkey rapprochement.

He also referred to the unexpected decision by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who declined his participation in the above-mentioned summit.

Netanyahu had said he would not attend the summit as he was informed that Turkey and representatives of other governments were planning to raise issues related to Israel’s nuclear programs during the summit.

Namik Tan has denied that Turkey had such an intention.

“We do not have such issues on our agenda,” Tan has said.