Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently made a statement on Armenia-Turkey Protocols on the eve of parliamentary elections in the country. Erdogan overtly declared about preconditions to Armenia-Turkey normalization.

The Turkish PM touched upon problems related to Armenia and Karabakh in Igdir, mainly populated with Azerbaijanis. In his speech he stressed that Nakhchivan and Karabakh are Turkey’s problems too, Milliyet newspaper reports.

“I reiterate my position that Armenia-Turkey rapprochement is out of the question without Karabakh conflict resolution. We took sides with Azerbaijan and will go on doing so. Nobody must expect anything from us. We gave an adequate response to Armenian MPs at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) too,” Erdogan noted.