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Devlet Bahceli: The government should announce the invalidity of the protocols signed with Armenia and apologize to the Turkish nation

20 January 2010 13:43 (UTC +04:00)

MHP leader issued a written statement concerning the decision of Armenian Constitutional Court. According to him, with this decision Armenia will not change the appropriate paragraph of the Declaration of Independence where the eastern Anatolian provinces of Turkey are presented as Western Armenia, will not recognize the Kars treaty determining the borders of the two countries or give up its policy on the international recognition of the so-called genocide.

Bahceli said according to the decision, Nagorno Karabakh problem and the occupied Azerbaijani territories have nothing to do with the protocols, this problem will not be taken into consideration during the implantation of the protocols.
â€œThis decision showed once more that Armenia had not changed its position contradicting the international law and the hostile attitude towards Turkey. This situation is a fiasco for the AKP government and the Foreign Minister who signed the protocols. The government should withdraw the protocols from the Turkish parliament, announce invalidity of the protocols and apologize to the Turkish nation. Otherwise, AKP government will go down in history as the government abasing its pride, confidence, self-respect and national interests,â€ he said.

According to the decision of Armenian Constitutional Court, the protocols can not be commented on contradicting to the preamble of Armenian Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Armenian Declaration of Independence contains territorial claims against Turkey and calls this countryâ€™s eastern provinces â€œWestern Armeniaâ€. Moreover, the declaration says that the international recognition of â€œArmenian genocideâ€ is the duty of Armenian state.