In response to the question of the member of the Armenian delegation to PACE and the ARF representative Armen Rustamyan on Turkey’s position on the protocols, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Armenia was stalling the protocols ratification process because it was being pressured by the Diaspora. “The Armenian side was taking a back seat [on the protocols] to deal with the problems of its Diaspora,” said Erdogan. In response to a question from Armenia’s PACE delegate Armen Rustamyan about the Turkey-Armenia protocols, Erdogan said that Turkey could not allow “Armenia to usurp the rights of Azerbaijan.”
