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Following Turkey’s parliamentary elections, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won’t take any new steps in the issue of Armenia-Turkey relations, said Giro Manoyan, director of the International Secretariat (in Armenian also known as Central Hai Dat office) of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D) Bureau in Yerevan, speaking to journalists today.
According to Manoyan, Erdogan has lost his former political influence in Turkey. Furthermore, there is the Azerbaijan factor, which, apart from affecting Turkey’s internal situation, also affects Turkey’s activities within the Nabucco project.
“As a result, I don’t think that Erdogan will take new steps,” he said.
The elections in Turkey were well-organized, Manoyan continued, and the quick tallying and reporting of votes , as well as the fact that they weren’t challenged, was positive for Turkey and “instructive for us.”
On Erdogan’s comment that after his party’s victory, Turkey should have its impact on countries from the Middle East to the Balkans, Manoyan said, “This shows that Turkey positions itself as a superpower, but very important for us is the question of Syria, where soon Turkey may enter and build migration stations under the cover of [a] humanitarian [gesture], but with that, it will strengthen its positions in Syria.”