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The thing with the Armenia-Turkey Protocols is that Turkey refused to implement the processes emerging from it and is not willing to restore the Protocols, an Armenian turkologist said on Thursday, adding the recent comments by the Armenian president and the foreign minister saying Armenia will enter the spring of 2018 without them reflect the actual state of the Protocols.

According to Ruben Safrastyan, the Armenian-Turkish Protocols stand as a “dead” document only existing formally, and Armenia has to declare them null and void until next spring.

“Tukey has assumed a great deal in its relations with Armenia dictating preconditions and exerting pressures with an attempt to meddle in the Artsakh issue. Turkey has in fact blocked the process of normalizing relations. That country’s foreign policy has led to a considerable weakening of Turkey’s reputation. Erdogan is unpredictable, due to which Turkey has ended up in isolation,” Mr. Safrastyan stated.

Reflecting on the Turkish president’s call to the Muslim world to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, the expert noted this is simply an attempt to improve his own reputation, which is not likely to give positive outcome, arguing the Arab world is not really positive about Turkey. He added the Muslim world is seriously separated, failing to run a unified pan-Islamic policy.