Kiro Manoyan commented on Turkish PM Erdogan`s statement.

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's apology for the killing of 14 thousand Kurds in Dersim (today's Tunceli, Turkey) was indecent, opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party's Political Affairs Bureau and Armenian Cause Office Head Kiro Manoyan stated during a press conference on Thursday.

"This was indecent on Erdogan's part because he said it was the sole political party of the time, that was, the Republican People's Party, which had to apologize. He presented it in such a way that as if the Party went and massacred independently from the state. But in the case of the Armenian Genocide and what happened in Dersim alike, it is the Turkish state which is responsible," Manoyan said.

As per Kiro Manoyan, Turkey is attempting to explain to the region what democracy is, but in reality Turkey is the one who contravenes that democracy.

And reflecting on the Armenian-Turkish protocols, Manoyan recalled that in recent periods several Turkish officials declared they will not sign these protocols.

"Turkey's president said in London that the protocols are frozen, but not dead. But if they were so much frozen, why did you sign the protocols? This comes to prove that we need to withdraw our signature. This form of protocols is perilous. With this, we just appease several western friends," ARF Dashnaktsutyun official maintained.

To note, in October 2009 Armenia and Turkey signed protocols in Zurich to normalize diplomatic relations between the states. The documents had to be ratified in both countries' parliaments. However, in 2010 the Armenian president suspended the process due to Turkey's non-constructive stance. Ankara set preconditions and linked the reconciliation process to resolution of the Karabakh conflict.