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Newly elected member of Turkey’s parliament Sinan Oğan doesn’t rule out the possibility that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, might include the issue of ratifying the Armenia-Turkey Protocols on the parliament agenda.
“If that happens, I, as a member of parliament, will be opposed to discussing this issue without resolving Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the liberation of Azerbaijan’s occupied territories,” he said, reports 1news.az.
Asked what, in his opinion, is Prime Minister Erdoğan’s position on this issue, who during the election campaign repeatedly made statement defending Azerbaijan’s “territorial integrity” and even ordered the demolition of the Armenia-Turkey friendship monument in Kars (the Monument to Humanity), Oğan said that was one part of the AKP’s election strategy, with the aim of winning over a certain segment of the electorate.
“But the elections are over and the government’s hands aren’t tied now. I think, in a certain period, the issue of ratifying the Armenia-Turkey Protocols will again become actual,” he said.