Hurriyet. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has only one specialist who knows Armenian
“Academy of foreign languages of neighbor countries”, which acts in the sidelines of Turkish “Kadir Has” University, will have Armenian language studies, “Hurriyet” writes. According to the source agreement has been made with an Armenian specialist. The Academy has already launched Russian and Greek studies. It’s said that US “Marshal Foundation” has provided $32.500 to the Academy.
The president of the university Mustafa Aidin told “Hurriyet”, “We don’t have specialists of the region. We don’t have specialists knowing Armenian and Persian. Everybody translates from English. In this respect Turkey has some gaps. The Foreign Ministry has only one specialist who knows Armenian and the second is just learning the language.”