TURKEY FACING NECESSITY OF MAKING A STEP TO IMPROVEMENT OF RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA
In another publication, entitled "Turkey's attitude towards Armenia remains unalterable", "Azg" expressed opinion that in any cases Turkey has faced the necessity of making a step towards the improvement of its relationship with Armenia. First of all, this refers to the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border. It is remarkable that this takes place in a period when Turkey stands on the threshold of radical structure changes, when the project of the new Constitution, dictated by the Islamic party of Erdogan, is yielding its positions and when the nationalistic opposition is escalating the political station in the country.
In other words, the inner confrontation of political powers in Turkey, which is represented as struggle between secularism and Islamism by the nationalistic powers, by no means hampers the wide discussion of the issue of opening the Armenian-Turkish border. The last discussion of that topic was organized by AIRPG on September 18, Istanbul and was entitled "The Economic and Social Consequences of Opening the Armenian-Turkish Border".
The initiative of AIRPG, basing in Washington, was supported by USAID and the "Eurasia" foundation. A similar event was organized also on September 20 in Ankara, in which an important role belonged to the Democracy Fund of Turkey.
Member of the European Department of the Middle-Eastern Technical University Burcu Gyultekin supported the opinions of AIRPG representative Mher Bagramian and worker of the Orientology Institute of Armenia Vahram Ter-Matevosian about necessity of opening the border and the necessity of involvement of NGOs in the resolution of that question. Gyultekin said that keeping the border, besides having negative effect on the political life and the economy of both the states, also harms the societies, impeding their contact and interference. He pointed out that the blockade of the Armenian-Turkish border also impedes the development of the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan; therefore Turkey must work out a policy of cooperation with Armenia, similar to the policy of partnership with Greece.
Gyultekin's opinion was argued by the head of the International Center of Strategic Research, Sedat Laciner. To his opinion, Turkey will have no profit from opening the border with Armenia. He noticed that Turkey will have difficulties with Azerbaijan, in case the border is opened before the final resolution of the Karabakh conflict. He reminded that Azerbaijan is much more important for Turkey than Armenia.
The information about the aforementioned discussions in Ankara and Istanbul was taken from the bulletin of the Armenian Research Institute of the Eurasian Strategic Research center. In the September 21 bulletin head of the Institute Omer Engin Lutem referred to the topic with an analyzing article.
Lutem's article supports the positions of Laciner, explaining that the export of Turkish goods to Armenia is only 0,15% of the whole foreign trade of Turkey. Even when the border opens, writes Lutem, Turkey will hardly have any profit; even Kars shall have nothing, as goods produced there are not demanded in Armenia. He added that Armenia shall not profit from the opening either, as it has noting to export.
Lutem noted that Armenia is interested in opening the border with Turkey rather politically than economically, for it shall bring forth difficulties between Azerbaijan and Turkey. ""If Turkey realizes that opening the border shall improve the relations with USA, EU or other states, then the question of full or partial opening must be considered," he wrote.
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