YEREVAN, December 13. /ARKA – Novosty-Armenia/. Turkey does not intend to establish relations with Armenia that can deteriorate the intergovernmental relations with Azerbaijan, Mensur Aktun, head of the department for foreign policy of the Turkish Economic and Social Research Foundation (TESEV) reported in Yerevan Monday.
He said that is why Turkey puts specific conditions in establishing intergovernmental relations: progress in the negotiations over the NKR conflict and creation of a commission for Armenian-Turkish relations.
Among positive achievements in the progress of the intergovernmental relations, the Turkish expert also mentioned the issue of the Armenian Genocide, which is currently actively discussed in Turkey. However, he did not use the term “genocide”, but the word “tragedy”. He argued this by saying that “this tragedy” does not fit the characteristics of the genocide according to the 1948 Geneva Convention on prevention and punishment for the crime of genocide.
“Turkey’s official position is not denial of the tragedy, but discussion of the problem,” he said.
The Armenian Genocide is the first one of the 20th century, resulting in annihilation of 1.5mln Armenians.
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