Wednesday, March 31 2021 12:02

ArmInfo.The views of the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan, whose ideological ally in this position is Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,  regarding the establishment of relations with Turkey are extremely  simplified. A similar opinion was expressed by the dean of the  Faculty of Oriental Studies of Yerevan State University, turkologist  Ruben Melkonyan.

"Here it is appropriate to recall the disappearance from the map of  the world of some states, whose leadership even 100 years ago had  similar simplified ideas about the possibility of relations with  Turkey. It is no secret that Ankara links the establishment of trade  and economic relations with Yerevan with Armenia's rejection of the  Artsakh issue, international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and  Armenia's recognition of the Kars Treaty. The latter will exclude any  territorial claims of Armenia against Turkey, " he stressed.

According to the Turkologist, the Pashinyan government is now moving  in the direction of meeting these preconditions put forward by  Ankara. In this light, he did not rule out the possibility of a  document appearing in the circulation, in which Armenia directly or  indirectly declares its rejection of the international recognition of  the Genocide. The unblocking of the Armenian-Turkish borders, in his  opinion, will be accompanied by their demarcation, respectively, by  Ankara's demand to Yerevan to renounce its territorial claims.

According to Melkonyan, the prospect of establishing trade and  economic relations with Turkey is also very ambiguous for Armenia.   According to his forecasts, all this will end with the dominance of  Turkish capital in Armenia and, as a result, the inevitable  Adjarization of our country. And all these sad prospects, in his  opinion, are regularly supported by statements at the level of the  top leadership of Armenia.  "Thus, having very dangerous laws in this  regard, I do not exclude that after the unblocking of the borders,  the Turks will actively buy up land, houses and hotels in Armenia.   Today, it is not so easy to sell land in our country, and the Turks  can afford to buy land at a fairly high price. Thus, the absence of  legislative barriers in this direction will lead to a" soft "  takeover of our country by Turkey. And all this is not fiction, all  this is quite real prospects. And this reality is supported by the  way of thinking and the policy of our leadership, " the Turkologist  concluded.