{"id":1099,"date":"2023-12-13T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/news\/1099\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:57:27","slug":"hay-thurkhakan-sahmaneh-baceleh-sparnum-e-petakanuthyaneh-thurkhaget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/1099\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkologist: The opening of the Armenian-Turkish border is a threat to our statehood"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The issue of opening the Armenian-Turkish border, which was<br>\nbrought back on the agenda in 2018, has become more relevant after the<br>\ndepopulation and occupation of Artsakh. Considering that one of the<br>\npreconditions, i.e. the Artsakh issue, has been &ldquo;satisfied&rdquo;, Turkey seemingly<br>\nagrees to open the border. According to Turkologist Tiran Lokmagyozyan, the<br>\nother two preconditions, regarding border issues and the recognition of the<br>\nArmenian Genocide, are no longer being considered.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;The border opening will first of all harm farmers. Working<br>\nin agriculture will become pointless, as all kinds of fruits and vegetables<br>\ngrow in Turkey. They will sell their agricultural produce at low prices, while<br>\nour local produce, being relatively expensive, will rot in sacks. Thus, we will<br>\neat Turkish tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, in a word, everything,&rdquo; Lokmagyozyan<br>\nsaid to<strong> ABC Media.<\/strong><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The potential opening of the Armenian-Turkish border also<br>\nexcites traders, who think they will be able to import low-priced goods.<p><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; \">&ldquo;Wherever Turkey enters, it first captures the market. The<br>\nvivid example of this is the city of Batumi in Georgia. In that part of<br>\nGeorgia, many people speak Turkish, people gradually assimilate into Turkish<br>\nculture. Unlike Georgia, Turkey considers us an enemy. As someone who knows<br>\nthat country from the inside, I can surely say that all other interpretations<br>\nare merely political moves,&rdquo; he said.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of opening the Armenian-Turkish border, which was brought back on the agenda in 2018, has become more relevant after the depopulation and occupation of Artsakh. Considering that one of the preconditions, i.e. the Artsakh issue, has been &ldquo;satisfied&rdquo;, Turkey seemingly agrees to open the border. According to Turkologist Tiran Lokmagyozyan, the other two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}