Armenia offers Turkey to establish relations without preconditions, but it's still unclear what Turkey wants

November 14, 2008 - 16:38 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The recent statement by the Turkish Defense Minister is typical for this country's mentality, AFR Dashnaktsutyun Bureau representative said.



Progress in the Armenian-Turkish relations is hardly possible unless Turkey acknowledges its past, Aghvan Vardanyan told a news conference in Yerevan today.



"Armenia holds a dialogue with Turkey and offers to establish relations without preconditions, but it's still unclear what Turkey wants," he said.



On November 10, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said in Brussels, "Would we be the nation-state we are today if the Greeks in the Aegean region or the Armenians here and there continued to stay in Turkey?"



Gonul drew harsh criticism from intellectuals and civil society organizations for expressing ideas in a way that could be taken for justifying ethnic cleansing.



The Armenian community of Istanbul sent a letter to PM Erdogan to remind that the Turkish Constitution says that Turk is a citizen of Turkey, irrelative of the nationality.
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