YEREVAN. – The Turkish MFA issued a comical statement concerning the Turkish shepherd that trespassed into Armenia’s border and died as a result of the appropriate actions taken by the Russian border guards.        

The statement makes accusations against the Armenian authorities, in the case when the troops from the Armenia Border Department of the Russian Federation (RF) Federal Security Service protect the Armenian-Turkish border.

In actual fact, it seems the Turkish MFA does not yet know that the RF border troops protect this boundary, and on the basis of two important documents that were signed in 1992 and in 1994.     

Also, the Turkish MFA statement has given a legal assessment to what had transpired, without taking into consideration the fact that the RF Federal Security Service is still conducting an investigation into the incident.   

In addition, by stressing that Armenian soldiers had killed a Turkish shepherd, the Turkish MFA and the Turkish media inflame an additional enmity against Armenians.   

By Artur Hakobyan