There is reason for everything, and the preparation of the Armenian-Turkish protocols got under way long ago. At first it was a secret process, and the information was declassified this April, the political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan told a press conference.

According to him, both the United States and Europe exerted pressure on Turkey even before the negotiations. Iskandaryan expressed his fears that Turkey will never carry the negotiations through. “Being more experience and cunning, Turks may trick us,” he said. Iskandaryan hopes, however, that Armenia’s efforts to continue the negotiations will be crowned with success. As regards the forecasts that, after the protocols have been signed, Armenia and Azerbaijan will be pressured in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, Iskandaryan said: “Nagorno-Karabakh has nothing in common with the Armenian-Turkish negotiations, and the initial Protocols do not say anything about the NKR or about the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey early last century.”

As regards the possible reopening of the Armenian-Turkish border, Iskandaryan believes it means additional problems for Armenia and “the green light” on Turkey’s way to the European Union.