Erdogan Hints Peacekeepers Could Leave Karabakh

Eurasia Review
Jan 15 2021

Turkey wants to create conditions for coexistence in Nagorno-Karabakh without the need for peacekeeping forces, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, January 13 during a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

“We want to create conditions that will ensure coexistence in Nagorno-Karabakh without the need for peacekeeping forces or monitoring activity. When this happens, I hope we will once again demonstrate to the world the constructive results of the Turkish-Russian partnership,” Erdogan wrote on his Telegram channel.

Erdogan said he and Putin also assessed the work of the joint Turkish-Russian center monitoring the ceasefire in Karabakh.

According to the Kremlin’s website, meanwhile, Putin has detailed Erdogan about the results of the trilateral meeting of the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan on January 11 in Moscow.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS