YEREVAN. - Turkish side gave quite ardent comments to the recent statement of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan about Western Armenia. The sharpest answer came from Turkish Prime-Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose being in Azerbaijan at the time could be one of the reasons for this sharpness, said a specialist in Turkic philology from Armenia Artak Shakaryan to a press conference on Thursday.

According to Shakaryan, the words of the Armenian president have been interpreted wrong in Turkey.

This is due to overreaction based on the dominating stereotypes of Turkish society that the Armenians are cunning and far-sighted and the ultimate goal of any undertaking is to return the territories of Western Armenia.

Speaking about the sharp tone of statements by Erdogan, Shakaryan suggested that the reason may not be only in the natural temper of the PM but it is also possible that he did not see the entire text of the statement and was given a part of it.

In general, the mess raised by Turkish and Azerbaijani sides played into their hand, availing to declare once aging about those “bad” Armenians. According to expert, an attempt to reduce the authority of Armenia at this stage has succeeded to some degree. The evidence for this is that Internet search engines query 90% of information on this subject falls on the Azeri and Turkish point of view.