ArmInfo. Armenian Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Arsen Torosyan discussed Armenian-Turkish social relations and the normalization process of Armenian-Turkish relations with Turkish Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Ozdemir Goktas on the sidelines of the RISE 2025 conference in Belgrade yesterday. Meanwhile, Goktas is known for her staunch anti- Armenian stance, as Turkologist Varuzhan Geghamyan wrote on social media.
The photo (from the meeting) shows Turkish Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Ozdemir Goktas. This minister was once active in Belgian politics, becoming the first member of the Belgian parliament to wear a hijab. However, in 2015, her political career in Belgium ended. She was expelled from the Belgian party CDH. The reason was her denial of the Armenian Genocide.
In short, Ms. Goktas is one of the most ardent and principled anti-Armenians," Geghamyan writes.
"That there is no such agenda is clear to any sane person. It is also obvious that it is wrong to meet with a rabid anti-Armenian while dozens of Armenians remain in captivity and Armenian territories are occupied.
However, more telling is the following: in my prediction, in the coming months (before the elections), in order to further inflate the fake bubble of supposedly established peace and "Armenian-Turkish friendship," Armenian representatives will try to at least take photos with Turkish representatives or hold pointless meetings at all international venues.
These propaganda stunts have one goal: they are aimed solely at misleading the Armenian audience, as evidenced, for example, by the fact that the Turkish ministry did not even publish information about yesterday's meeting on social media, despite mentioning other meetings.
In short, this propaganda stunt can be classified as sentimental propaganda , the Turkologist concluded.
As a reminder, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced at a joint press conference on February 15, 2023, in Ankara that Armenia and Turkey would repair the Ani border bridge. In early February 2024, the Armenian Foreign Ministry announced that Turkey had shared its approaches to the restoration of the Ani Bridge with Armenia. Armenia shared the Armenian version of the draft protocol on the restoration of the historic Ani Bridge with Turkey in 2025. In September 2025, Ermenihaber.am reported that during the 6th meeting of Special Envoys for the Normalization of Armenian- Turkish Relations, Ruben Rubinyan and Serdar K?l?c, the parties decided to jointly restore the historic Ani Bridge (Silk Road).
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