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Turkish FM assures Azerbaijan of ‘united’ stand on Armenia
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday reassured Azerbaijan that Ankara remained “united” with Baku and would uphold Azerbaijani interests during its reconciliation efforts with Armenia.
On a brief visit to the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Davutoglu said he had provided Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with details of a meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian last week in Washington. “I came to Baku in order to inform the leadership of Azerbaijan on the meeting in Washington. Azerbaijan and Turkey share a united position on the issues in question,” Davutoglu told journalists in comments shown on ANS television.
Turkey has been keen to assure Azerbaijan, its ally and strategic energy partner, that it will not ignore Baku’s conflict with Armenia over the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region during the reconciliation efforts. Azerbaijan has warned Turkey that agreeing to reopen its border with Armenia without progress in the Karabakh dispute could threaten energy ties.
The reopening of the Turkish-Armenian border is part of a landmark accord the two neighbours signed in October to establish diplomatic ties and end decades of hostility over Ottoman massacres of Armenians during World War I. But the deal, which needs parliamentary ratification in both countries to take effect, has since faltered amid mutual accusations that the other side is not committed to reconciliation.
Turkey sealed its border with Armenia in 1993 in a show of solidarity with Azerbaijan after ethnic Armenian separatists, backed by Yerevan, seized the Nagorny Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts from Baku in a war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. Armenia has slammed Turkey’s position as a “precondition,” rejecting any link between the October deal and Nagorny Karabakh.
Turkey and Armenia have also been estranged over Yerevan’s allegations that up to 1.5 million Armenians were the victims of genocide at the hands of their Ottoman rulers in 1915-1917, a label Ankara fiercely rejects.
Source: Cumhuriyet
URL: en.cumhuriyet.com/?hn=132844
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April 2010
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