Turks of Kars against opening the border with Armenia

Turks of Kars against opening the border with Armenia

ArmRadio.am
30.01.2007 17:32

`Unless Armenia liberates the occupied Azerbaijani lands, we are not
about to launch a dialogue with it,’ President of Kars Municipality
Naif Alibeyoghlu told leading mass media representatives. He noted
that `there is an incorrect impression in Azerbaijan that those in
Kars wish to open the border with Armenia.’

Alibeyoghlu said that both Kars dwellers oppose the opening of the
border unless Armenia withdraws from the occupied territories of
Azerbaijan, recognizes Turkey’s border and refuses from the issue of
recognition of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.’ `We do
not see Armenia as an attractive market for Turkey,’ said the
President of Kars Municipality.