“I do not welcome the fact that Armenia allow amateurs to present official Ankara’s opinion,” Ruben Melkonyan, the Deputy Head of the Department of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University, told reporters, commenting on the Turkish expert Behlul Ozkan’s initiative to deliver lectures for Armenian journalists.

“The Turkish expert’s statement that the Armenian-Turkish process will progress provided Armenian armed forces leave Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the wording ‘occupied territories’ confirm official Ankara’s position widely cover by Armenian mass media. If the group is organizing the lectures with good intentions, it had better invite discuss the matter with experts rather than invite journalists who are not acquainted with the material,” Melkonyan said. Before inviting anyone to Armenia, the RA Foreign Minister should know about who he is and what is his ideology, he said.

Behlul Ozkan, a Turkish political scientist and lecturer at Istanbul University arrived in Armenia the other day. He stated that the Armenian-Turkish process will progress provided Armenian armed forces leave Nagorno-Karabakh.