Active internal political consultations on the prospects of Armenian-Turkish normalization are conducted in Turkey this week. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu intends to hold meetings with leaders of political forces, including opposition.

Davutoglu, having stated that “the last word in Armenian-Turkish normalization process would be after Turkish Parliament”, had his first meeting with the Speaker of Turkish Parliament Mehmet Ali Sahin. He schedules to meet with the leaders of oppositional parties till September 21, before his visit to New York to take part in the UN General Assembly session, the Turkish TRT website reports.

Leading oppositional Republican People's Party agreed to meet with Davutoglu on September 15, after stating “they will not vote in the Parliament unless Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani areas terminates”. Nationalist Movement Party refused to meet with the Foreign Minister. Meetings with Democratic Party and Welfare Party are scheduled September 15-16. The discussion with Democratic Society Party was put off till the end of September due to its leader’s (Ahmet Türk) visit to North Iraq.

Davutoglu will inform the Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Parliament of the meeting outcomes, after which the Armenian-Turkish normalization will be placed on the Parliament agenda.