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As Armenia moves toward the 2026 parliamentary elections, the language of politics is sharpening noticeably. The ruling party's central propaganda message has become increasingly explicit in recent days: "If the opposition wins and, as it has promised, reopens for renegotiation the agreements that have secured the current peaceful environment, war will be inevitable."

Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan evaluated President Erdogan's statements on December 16 regarding the Turkey-Armenia normalization process, in which he said, "We will take symbolic steps with Armenia next year." Pashinyan welcomed the statements, noting that "more comprehensive and concrete progress must now be implemented."

Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan's statement that Turkish-Armenian-Azerbaijani enmity was shaped by the USSR and KGB has been criticized by some circles while appreciated by others. Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, an expert on Turkey-Soviet relations, author of the book "Soviet Approach to Turkey's Transformation" and faculty member at the American University of Armenia, said, "Armenians who survived the Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and the massacres inflicted by Kemalist forces did not need the guidance of the KGB, which was established in 1954, to understand what happened to their families, villages, towns, and churches."