Levon Zurabyan: Turkey’s Prime Minister has prepared very well
Member of the Armenian delegation Levon Zurabyan thinks that Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu came to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) well-prepared. In this case, though, he doesn’t mean his speech, but the way of representation. Ahmet Davutoğlu spoke so long and gave so lengthy answers that the time expired. Many MPs didn’t get a chance to address him a question, even when their names came first in the list of those, who were going to ask questions. Levon Zurabyan also didn’t get a chance to ask a question. He was going to address such a question to Davutoğlu, “One decade ago Turkey began ‘zero problems with neighbors’ project. Since that time, Turkey has refused to sign reconciliation protocols with Armenia, the relations with Egypt, Israel and Russia have deteriorated, has interfered in Iraq, has started military operations against Kurds in Syria and Iraq. The journalists of “Jumhurriet” were imprisoned for having written that the Turkish government secretly supports the Islamic State. Do you think that all this is consistent with the standards of the Council of Europe (CoE)?” Mr Zurabyan told “A1+” journalist that Davutoğlu’s format of making his speech and answering the questions in that way has become a topic of discussion among the MPs. By the way, when Turkey’s Prime Minister was in the CoE building, several elevators didn’t operate. After his departure they started operating.
