YEREVAN. – Turkey tries to bring the issue of fight against trafficking into politics, head of Armenian police department for fight against trafficking Tigran Petrosyan told at a press conference on Friday.
Turkey is a problematic state concerning the issue of possible cooperation between Turkey and Armenia on fight against trafficking, as there is no diplomatic relations with Turkey. The Interpol provides the only way to communicate between Armenian and Turkish law enforcement agencies.
At present negotiations are run on transferring an Armenian citizen to Armenia through Georgian side. He is wanted for organizing trafficking.
At the same time Turkish media spreads information that mostly does not correspond to reality. For example they say that Armenian women who are either victims of trafficking or intended prostitution were arrested. However, later, after Armenian side checks the information, it turns out that although people mentioned in publications arrived in Turkey indeed, they appeared in police not because they had something in common with trafficking or prostitution.
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