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Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Armeniaâ€™s operation on the protocols is inadmissible

20 January 2010 11:51 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports quoting Cihan agency that Recep Tayyip Erdogan answered a question on this theme at the press conference held with OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He said that the comment of the Armenian Constitutional Court on the protocols could not be admitted by Turkey. Prime Minister noted that the Turkish government had sent the full texts of the protocols to the parliament.
â€œWe did not use a state body as a mediator. We did not do any operation on the sentences of the protocol and demonstrated our sincerity by sending them fully to the parliament,â€ he said.
Erdogan accused Armenia of doing operation in the text of the protocols.
â€œIt should be eliminated. The process will remain shadowed and damaged unless this mistake is eliminated,â€ he said.

Prime Minister said Turkey could not isolate Azerbaijan from the process of normalization with Armenia. Erdogan underlined that he had told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama about it.
â€œWe asked them to end the process as Minsk Group â€˜trioâ€™. We said Turkey-Armenia relations will be normalized, if it is solved. But first of all Azerbaijanâ€™s territories should be liberated,â€ he said.