RPA: EU remains silent, although Armenia`s current ruler is little  different from Erdogan

ArmInfo.  Armenia is not included in the agenda for EU-Turkey relations, Armen Ashotyan, Vice Chairman of the Republican Party, writes in his article.

According to him, the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee  approved the latest report on Turkey's EU membership the day before,  which will be adopted in its final form at an upcoming session of the  European Parliament. 

"What should we learn from this report in terms of Armenia's  interests? Firstly, unlike the previous "Serge years", this time the  report does not contain any demands or concerns regarding the need to  normalize relations with Armenia, there is no hint about the need to  open the Armenian-Turkish border, and there are no European concerns  or demands for improving bilateral relations. Secondly, unlike the  previous "Serge years", the report also does not contain any demand  for Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Let me remind you that  during the "Serge years", the need for the recognition of the  Armenian Genocide by the European Parliament was even raised as a  precondition for Turkey's membership in the EU. Thirdly, the European  Union's concerns related to Turkey's policy on the Cyprus issue  remain, as well as the need to normalize Turkish-Greek relations.   Fourthly, coherence with the European Union's common foreign and  defense policy with Turkey has reached a historically low level of  only 4 percent. This means that Turkey has continued and will  continue to pursue a foreign and defense policy that serves  exclusively its own interests, and in this case, the prospect of  normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations will depend solely on Turkey's  interests. Not to mention the current regime's virtually zero efforts  to recognize the Armenian Genocide," Armen Ashotyan said.

He added that it should also be noted that a significant portion of  the report is devoted to the regression of democracy in Turkey, the  persecution of political opponents, political prisoners, and numerous  other anti-democratic events. In other words, the European Union,  when necessary, is also keenly aware of issues in other countries  related to democratic regression that do not meet European standards.  "In the case of Armenia, they continue to cynically remain silent  about all of this, although the current Armenian ruler, in his style  and the intensity of his repression, is already little different from  Erdogan, whom Europeans regularly classify as an autocrat," the  politician stated.