One Million Red Ribbons

Armenian-Turkish protocols – the starting point to undermine stability in the Caucasus whole year, from July 2008 to all the memorable second, the Armenian society lives under stress. From the moment when the president country Serge Sargsyan during a visit to Russia, after contacts with the Russian government suddenly announced that later became known as "football diplomacy" with Turkey … If you have additional questions, you may want to visit Kidney Foundation. And then came the day October 14, 2009 year, the return qualifying match between the football teams of Armenia and Turkey for the World Championship. Now in Turkey. The Armenians lost again.

But if at the Yerevan soccer defeats on diplomatic defeat another one seriously thought, here after the defeat in Bursa … Came to light suspicious manner disclosed in the days of celebration for the Armenian historical dates vaunted "road map" Turkish-Armenian relations, and as much as two (!) bilateral protocol on this same normalization. And with these protocols Armenian diplomacy was a complete "puncture." Apparently, therefore, both protocols were kept entirely secret from the public and Armenia and the Armenian diaspora from overseas. That is why the Armenian government, which, as acknowledged recently, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, "participated" in the creation of these protocols and initialed them even in the same month, that is, in fact, simultaneously with the "road map" to disclose this fact only on August 30, 2009, that is putting its public and all foreign Armenians with a fait accompli. What was the reason, if, as Armenian officials say, are dictated solely by the noble and sincere desire to normalize relations with Turkey without preconditions and to promote durable peace, stability and security in the region, without compromising the Armenian national interests? Vchityvayas in both protocols, in particular – the first of them, all impartial observers (except the Armenian authorities and engaged with them experts) was extremely sensitive three preconditions that Turkey put forward to Armenians beginning in 1991.

Officially it is called 'peace plan', designed to end the conflict in the south-east, where most of the population are Kurds. Ankara proposes to remove restrictions on the use of languages of national minorities, to reduce the number of military roadblocks in the south-east of the country and create a commission to investigate allegations of torture. "We want everyone in this country concerned is' – Atalay said, adding that the goals will require fundamental changes in the outlook of the Turkish people. At the same time during their half-hour speech Atalay never specified that it comes to the Kurds. Also, nothing was said about a possible amnesty for PKK guerrillas. But then what kind of 'peace plan'? In the end, in recent decades, war (call it what you will – inter-ethnic war of the Turks and the Kurds internal civil armed conflict or something different!) was just the members of the paramilitary wing of the PKK.

And if the Ankara really want a real, genuine peace in this most south-eastern Anatolia, which in actual fact no other than the Western Armenia, then, consequently, one of the most important and priority issues of this 'peace plan' was supposed to be this point about the attitude of the Turkish authorities to the PKK. And so – like a regular profanity is quite real and carrying a lot of threats to the problem. Despite the fact that pro-government MPs are a majority in parliament, the opposition met with hostility reform project. Representatives of the Turkish Nationalists argue that the changes threaten the unity of Turkey.