YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. 20 years after declaring independence Armenia chose the Turkish development way. Tigran Khzmalian, a film director, a member of the Miatsum people's initiative, expressed such an opinion at the April 15 discussion. According to him, the evidence of that development is Armenian authorities' striving for establishing a police state, fall of population's spiritual level "up to the level of a caricature," public's mania for pursuing a material profit. According to T. Khzmalian's observation, the Armenian youth has also become a bearer of Turkish values, the evidence of which is their style of getting dressed and the music they prefer listening to. T. Khzmalian considers that today Armenia and Armenian people are not ready for opening of the border. "We should understand it correctly: we, the participants of this discussion are not against opening the Armenian-Turkish border, but are concerned with the dangers threatening us," the film director said.

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