Gül urges Medvedev to push for peace in Karabakh

President Abdullah Gül urged his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to push for a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia during a phone conversation on Saturday.

According to diplomatic sources, Gül also expressed Ankara’s feeling of unease with the Armenian Constitutional Court ruling containing preconditions and restrictive provisions on the normalization protocols between Armenia and Turkey. Gül urged Medvedev to play a ‘more active role’ with Yerevan in order to keep the normalization process on track. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » January 2010

Turkish, Armenian FMs meet for short talk in London

Davutoğlu-Nalbandian talks mark the first face-to-face meeting after Armenia’s court ruling draws strong criticism from Ankara. The ruling jeopardized the protocols that were signed to begin normalization of diplomatic relations between the two foes

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Armenia held an impromptu meeting Thursday at an international conference in London during which Turkey relayed its concerns about the prospects of the two countries’ protocols.  Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » January 2010

Eyes on Sochi for progress on Nagorno-Karabakh

Turkish diplomats and politicians will today be closely following a trilateral summit in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, where Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will host Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at a trilateral summit that will focus on resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. 

Ankara, which last year agreed with Yerevan to establish diplomatic relations and reopen their border, insists on seeing improvement towards a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in parallel with its efforts to normalize relations with Yerevan. Ankara argues that partial normalization in the Caucasus cannot be sustainable as long as the parties fail to exert efforts for complete normalization. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » January 2010

Russia hosts Azeri, Armenian talks

The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have held their fifth meeting for a peace agreement in the Russian resort city of Sochi as Moscow pushes the sides to resolve their longstanding conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

“The negotiations were very useful; the parties viewed the concrete proposals of the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] co-chairs,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the meeting. “There is a common understanding and all this has been covered in the preamble of the documents.”

The meeting was between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, his Armenian counterpart, Serge Sarkisian, and their Russian host, Dmitry Medvedev. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » January 2010

Turkey to get freer hand with updated Madrid principles

Ankara hopes that recent diplomatic mobility in the South Caucasus will eventually lead to concrete progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan and will enable Turkey to pass a so-called threshold to move ahead in ongoing efforts for the normalization of ties with estranged neighbor Armenia.
 
Moscow yesterday hosted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who urged President Dmitry Medvedev and his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on maintenance of the “gained impetus” in efforts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » January 2010

Armenian parliament’s speaker: Armenia not to debate protocols until Turkish parliament ratifies them

The National Assembly of Armenia (parliament) will not discuss the protocols on normalization of relations with Turkey unless they are ratified by Turkish parliament, Armenian parliament’s Speaker Ovik Abrahamyan said.

“Attempts to link Karabakh conflict settlement process with normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations are ungrounded and unacceptable,” Hovik Abrahamyan said when commenting on yesterday’s statement by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press, Turkish Press No Comments » December 2009

Azerbaijani FM to visit Turkey

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will pay an official visit to Turkey at the invitation of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu Dec. 25-26 to discuss bilateral relations and the protracted Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a Foreign Ministry statement said on Monday. 
The visit is expected to include private and committee meetings with Foreign Minister Davutoğlu as well as meetings with President Abdullah Gül, Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “Along with discussing bilateral relations with the Azerbaijani foreign minister, the talks will also cover regional problems that concern both nations particularly including the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” the statement read. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » December 2009

Sarkozy-Aliyev meeting discusses energy, Karabakh

French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev in Paris on Wednesday.

In a written statement, the French presidency said the leaders had agreed to expand bilateral relations and trade volume between the two countries and expressed their wish to develop a “strategic partnership.”

France said it wants to develop economic relations with Azerbaijan, including those in the field of energy, such as oil and natural gas. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press, Turkish Press No Comments » December 2009

Nagorno-Karabakh problem and solution: role for Turkey

Towards the end of this year, several important developments are taking place that should clarify the likelihood of the peaceful resolution of the problem of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan on terms consistent with U.N. Security Council resolutions, OSCE statements and the wishes of the majority of people in the South Caucasus, namely cessation of Karabakh’s occupation by Armenia and withdrawal of its military from there in exchange for a number of significant concessions by Azerbaijan ranging from economic and trade, to the political status of a high-level autonomy for the region. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » November 2009

Progress made in Azerbaijan-Armenia talks, says OSCE

Progress is made at talks between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but difficulties are also identified, mediators say. The meeting comes a day after Azerbaijani leader raised the stakes warning that the meeting will be ‘decisive’ and that Azerbaijan’s military is ready to take back the region by force

In what have been called “last-chance” peace talks, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan are said to have made important progress over the disputed Azerbaijani enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Despite Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev raising the stakes beforehand by threatening to take the region back by military force, international mediators in Munich appeared upbeat. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Turkish Press No Comments » November 2009

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