Speaking of recent developments in Armenia-Turkey “shaky” relations, Turkish Hurriyet Daily News says that they remind a “blame game” when both countries’ Presidents point fingers at each other.

“Making predictions is very difficult in such cases because there is incredible pressure both in Armenia and Turkey,” the daily quotes Dr. Hans Gutbrod, regional director of the Caucasus Research and Resource Center in Tbilisi. The expert reckons that in this case it is important what will happen in the next five years and not five weeks or months, meanwhile being optimistic.

Hurriyet underlined that bothered by RA Constitutional Court’s decision, Ankara is “working on a legal text to prove its &‘non-conformity’ with the protocols” that should be further sent to mediating Switzerland.

“To look at a process like that, you have to get back together at the table over and over again, and at some point reach a breakthrough. External actors can also play a constructive role,” Gutbrod says.

A Caucasus expert at the Turkish think tank TEPAV Burcu Gultekin Punsmann considers that present deadlock in accord endangers two years’ efforts and sides should be loyal to the documents. The expert deems that every wording in Protocols was delicately selected.

“It must be the diplomacy that should be given credit and the ground for reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia should not be shaken,” the source quotes Punsmann.