TURKISH PARTY KEEPS ON CLAIMING ABOUT INTERCONNECTION OF NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA WITH KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
ArmInfo
2009-10-12 11:26:00
ArmInfo. The Turkish party keeps on claiming about interconnection
of normalization of relations with Armenia with the Karabakh conflict
settlement.
As APA reports quoting the Turkish news agencies, Prime Minister
of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the following when commenting
on signing of the Armenian- Turkish Protocols: "If Armenia doesn’t
withdraw from the Azerbaijani lands, its normal relations with
Turkey are impossible". "The Turkish government opened this way. Our
intention is that the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno Karabakh conflict
to be solved. If this problem is solved, our people will support the
normalization of relations yet more and it will ease the approval
of protocols at the parliament", Erdogan said and added that the
parliament will certainly review the process of solution of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani problem. "We have sent some messages and
made some steps since 2003. We eased visa regime for the Armenian
citizens. I proposed to the Armenian president in 2005 to leave their
claims, to establish historical fact-finding commission, to research
archive materials and to make decision after the experts’ opinion",
the Turkish PM said.