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The ongoing developments in Turkey cannot pose a serious threat to the security of Armenia, but there is a need to show vigilance, Kiro Manoyan- the head of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Party’s Armenian Cause and Political Affairs Office - said at a discussion today when commenting on the deterioration of relations with Kurds in Turkey.

“We should be vigilant and watch the developments as all this is taking place not far from the Armenian border,” he said.

“These events may impact – I believe they are already impacting Azerbaijan’s opportunities,” Kiro Manoyan added, recalling that sections of Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline were blown up twice in the recent period.

The situation in Turkey has sharply escalated in recent months after the Islamic State militant group carried out a bombing attack in Suruc on the border with Syia, and Turkish police officers were killed in the country’s southeast, with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claiming responsibility for their killing. On July 24, 2015 Turkish troops attacked positions of the Islamic State in the north of Syria and PKK’s positions in northern Iraq, using F-16 fighter jets, tanks and artillery. In response, PKK stated on its website that the peace process with Ankara lost its meaning. Turkish President Erdogan also rejected the peace process.