Within coming month Turkey will be trying to create a "situation of time trouble" in the process of Armenian-Turkish rapproachment. If Ankara will not be able to achieve its goals within some time, it will apply the "Zugzwang" method, Hayk Demoyan, director of the Institute of Armenian Genocide museum told a press conference in Yerevan, assessing the overall situation in the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

"Any action made by Turkey would complicate the situation of Ankara. The statements by the Turkish side related to the RA Constitutional Court decision on the Protocols, have not received any support from the superpowers. There is some disappointment now in Turkey, " the historian said.

According to him, the disappointment was particularly conditioned by the fact that Turkey and its allies realized that no concessions over the Karabakh settlement can be expected from the Armenian side in the near future. In addition, the Turkish side anticipated slowdown of the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, which didn't happen, the historian said.

“That propaganda thesis according to which Armenia has territorial claims against Turkey did not work and Turkey understood it," the museum director said. All are witnessing how it is difficult for Turkey to lose Azerbaijan.

The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued the following official statement on Armenia-Turkey Protocols:

“The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia has declared its decision of constitutional conformity on the Protocols between Turkey and Armenia signed on 10 October 2009 with a short statement on 12 January 2010. The Constitutional Court has recently published its grounds of decision. It has been observed that this decision contains preconditions and restrictive provisions which impair the letter and spirit of the Protocols.

The said decision undermines the very reason for negotiating these Protocols as well as their fundamental objective. This approach cannot be accepted on our part.”

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in 1988 as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 to 1994. Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.

The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. The Armenian Genocide is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust. The Republic of Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate description of the events. In recent years, it has faced repeated calls to accept the events as genocide. To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and historians accept this view. The Armenian Genocide has been also recognized by influential media including The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post and The Associated Press. The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.