Turkey will not recognise Armenian Genocide in the nearest future - Turkish expert

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YEREVAN, 28 June. /ARKA/. Turkish expert Mustafa Aydin believes that Turkey will not recognise the Armenian Genocide in the near future.br/pp

Last time, when the rapprochement process took place and the protocols were signed in 2008, the idea of creating a historical commission to discuss all this issue was put forward. Turkey will not go further than that, Aydın said during the Building Tomorrow-2024 forum organised by the Applied Political Science Research Institute (APRI)./pp

In turn, Vazgen Karapetyan, deputy director of the Partnership-Eurasia Foundation, noted that first of all, it is necessary to create some kind of platform through which Turkey could understand what consequences could arise as a result of recognising the Genocide./pp

In such a case, it is not excluded that the Genocide issue will be resolved. Armenians have never been able to clearly formulate options or a range of demands, he pointed out./pp

Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey do not officially exist, although Turkey recognised Armenia (within the borders of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic shortly after the latter declared independence in September 1991./pp

In 1993, Turkey reacted to the war in Nagorno-Karabakh by closing its border with Armenia as a sign of support for Azerbaijan./pp

In 2008-2009, there was a brief thaw in the countries' bilateral relations, and in October 2009, the two sides signed protocols to normalise relations. However, the protocols were never ratified, and rapprochement was halted the following year. The protocols were officially annulled by Armenia in March 2018./pp

In December 2021, Armenia and Turkey announced the appointment of special envoys to attempt to normalise relations. -0-/p