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  • BAKU: Baku Calls Firing of Azerbaijan and Turkish Flags as Brutality

    Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
    April 26 2008


    Baku Calls Firing of Azerbaijan and Turkish Flags as Brutality (video)
    26.04.08 15:02

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 26 April / corr Trend News K.Ramazanova / Baku calls
    the firing of Azerbaijani and Turkish flags as brutality.

    `These actions by Armenia show the world their true face,' Araz
    Azimov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, told journalists in Baku on
    26 April.

    Azimov said that Azerbaijan follows the laws and does not intend to
    take similar steps. `We witnessed such actions in the past,' he said.

    On 25 April the flags of Turkey and Azerbaijan were fired in Yerevan
    on 25 April during the ceremony dedicated to the victims of the
    so-called `Armenian genocide'.

    Armenia accuses Ankara of genocide of 1,500 Armenians in 1915-1917
    during the Ottoman Empire. There are not any diplomatic relations
    between Armenian and Turkey, whereas the Armenian- Turkish border was
    closed in 1993 at Ankara's initiative.

    Turkey rebuffs accusations by Armenia and confirms that during the
    inter-ethnic conflict, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the
    beginning of the last century, many Muslim Turks were killed along
    with Christian Armenians. The Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan offered
    to research the issue with the help of historical achieves of both
    countries, whilst Armenia did not favour it.Ankara's principle
    position on the issue states that in 1915 Armenians were internally
    displaced due to political interests of Ottoman Empire and that cannot
    be considered as genocide against the nation.
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