ARMENIA-TURKEY RAPPROCHEMENT OUT OF QUESTION WITHOUT KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION-TURKISH PM
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May 2 2011
Armenia
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently made a
statement on Armenia-Turkey Protocols on the eve of parliamentary
elections in the country. Erdogan overtly declared about preconditions
to Armenia-Turkey normalization.
The Turkish PM touched upon problems related to Armenia and Karabakh in
Igdir, mainly populated with Azerbaijanis. In his speech he stressed
that Nakhchivan and Karabakh are Turkey’s problems too, Milliyet
newspaper reports.
“I reiterate my position that Armenia-Turkey rapprochement is out of
the question without Karabakh conflict resolution. We took sides with
Azerbaijan and will go on doing so. Nobody must expect anything from
us. We gave an adequate response to Armenian MPs at the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) too,” Erdogan noted.
From: A. Papazian
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