Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu mulled the situation over the Armenian-Turkish protocols with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today. Davutoglu expressed Turkey's dissatisfaction with the Armenian Constitutional Court's amendments to the protocol, Anadolu reported.
During a telephone conversation with Clinton, Davutoglu discussed the Ankara-Yerevan protocols signed between the two countries to establish diplomatic relations and noted that Turkey dissatisfied with the Armenian Constitutional Court's intervention to the Turkish-Armenian protocols.
Jan. 19, the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement which indicated that the Armenian Constitutional Court's decision contains "pre-conditions and restrictive provisions that contrary to the letter and spirit of the protocols. The Turkish Foreign Ministry also stressed that "the decision undermines the very motive of negotiations on the protocols, their fundamental purpose and can not be accepted."
Earlier, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the process of normalizing the Ankara-Yerevan relations can be suspended if the Armenian Constitutional Court does not reverse its decision on the protocols.
Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey were broken due to Armenian claims of an alleged genocide and its occupation of Azerbaijani lands. Their border closed in 1993.
