"President of Turkey depends on his party and allies in NATO and the U.S. He can't take decisions independently," said the head of Christian Democratic Union of Armenia.
According to the latest U.S. and Israeli intelligence assessments, that is likely to happen sometime in 2009, and could happen by the end of this year.
55 French MPs prepared a statement condemning the French Senate for not passing a constitutional amendment that would have put Turkey's future EU membership to a referendum.