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Failure to implement the Ankara-Yerevan normalization deal will likely strengthen ‘genocide bills’ in US Congress, Turkish Hurriyrt Daily reported.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's talks with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House earlier this week have mostly been viewed as a success by analysts. However, an uphill reconciliation process between Turkey and Armenia may be the sign of a creeping deterioration in U.S.-Turkish ties next year.

During the joint statement with Erdogan at the White House on Monday Obama referred to the fact that the Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers on Oct. 10 signed a set of agreements under which Ankara and Yerevan should set up normal diplomatic relations and reopen their land border. The deal, if ratified by the parliaments of the two neighbors, would effectively end decades of hostile relations. But the Turkish and Armenian ratifications have not come yet.

In a letter to some major Armenian-American groups last week, Obama also said, “Normalization between Armenia and Turkey should move forward without preconditions and within a reasonable timeframe.”

The issue at the root of the problem is the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Turkey's close friend and ally.

As a result of the conflict, Turkey has refused to establish normal diplomatic relations with Yerevan and has kept the land border with Armenia closed since 1993.

Erdogan told Obama that reopening the border before progress is achieved in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would ruin Turkey's ties with Azerbaijan and be viewed as completely unacceptable to Turkish voters.

“The normalization process between Turkey and Armenia is very much related to these issues (of improvement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani ties),” Erdogan told reporters at the White House.

His remarks were seen as a hint that the Turkish parliament would most probably not ratify any normalization deal with Armenia before strong signs are observed for an end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

“In addition to escalating his Armenian genocide denial demands, Erdogan also made clear that his government would not respect either of the two U.S. priorities for Turkey-Armenia normalization: no preconditions and a reasonable timeframe,” the Armenian National Committee of America, or ANCA, the largest Armenian-American group, said in a statement late Tuesday.

Though, Obama has urged the soonest ratification and reminded of the upcoming April 24, and the Armenian Genocide issue.

According to Hurriyet, Obama has addressed a message to the Turkish PM over the pending Armenian Genocide bill and its recognition by the US Cogress: “Providing the protocols are not ratified, it would be difficult to halt the Genocide bill passing by the Congress.”

“The Turkish delegation expects deterioration in April,” the source says.