Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made yet another mistake last week by inviting 10 journalists from Turkey to Yerevan for a one-and-a-half hour discussion.
Before we go into the substance of Pashinyan’s remarks, I would like to point out some of the basic problems with his statements and
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Harut – thank you for providing the rebuttal and data on Pashinyan’s dis-information on the history of meetings with Armenian and Turkish officials . I look forward to reading your view on Pashinyan’s statement with regards to his meeting with the Turkish journalists.
That Pashinyan feels the need to invite Turkish journalists for a PR show is shameful and that the Armenian government has paid for all their expenses is doubly shameful.
Correction: T24 is also an independent media outlet, it is not government-controlled – yet.
Also within the independent Turkish media, which makes up about 5% of the whole Turkish media, independent media outlets differ in their approach towards Erdogan’s government, either opting for a non-partisan and non-confrontational approach (like T24 or Agos) or for a partisan and confrontational anti-Erdogan stance (like Sozcu).
It is a matter of when not if, that the remaining and steadily shrinking independent media outlets in increasingly autocratic Turkey, will be taken over and purged or shut down alltogether. Thousands of them already suffered that fate.
There is nothing out of the ordinary for a president or a PM to invite a foreign leaders or journalists.
It is fair that we note that having elected as president of Armenia on April 9, 2008, Serzh Sargsyan took a historical initiative and invited, Turkish President Abdullah Gül to Armenia in September 2008, to watch a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier match between Armenia and Turkey. Abdullah Gül attended the game in Armenia. Surely the invitation was footed by the taxpaying citizens of Armenia.
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