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Turkish political analyst Cengiz Aktar published a report in Beyazgazete news website on the current stage of the Armenian-Turkish normalization process. According to him, the ratification of the Armenian-Turkish normalization protocols entered a deadlock due to Erdogan’s “words on Karabakh uttered in Baku.”

Note that Erdogan assured in Azerbaijan’s Parliament that the Armenian-Turkish border will not open unless Nagorno-Karabakh issue is settled. Aktar highlights that both the US and Armenia are concerned over the blocked process.

“Providing Turkey doesn’t ratify the protocols, Armenia will withdraw its signature, as Serzh Sargsyan had pledged. Now, as April 24 is coming, the necessity of overcoming the barrier over the protocols has appeared among Turkey’s top agenda items. This is why Foreign Minister Deputy Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu left for Yerevan so urgently,” the analyst says.

Highlighting the importance of the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation process for the US, Aktar writes:

“There is a backstage rumor that the Armenian President is planning to submit the protocols into the National Assembly for signature at the threshold of his visit to the US to drive Turkey into a corner. Thus, Armenia will address the following message to the US: “We are committed to our obligations, while Turkey still fails to.”

The expert says the protocols have been suspended in Turkey not only due to Azerbaijan, but also due to Turkey opposing the endorsement of the Armenian Genocide Resolution in the US and Sweden.

“I suppose, the protocols will be hardly submitted to Mejlis agenda before elections,” Cengiz Aktar says.