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  • Baku accuses Turkey of disrespect for Azeri national flag

    Interfax, Russia
    Oct 15 2009


    Baku accuses Turkey of disrespect for Azeri national flag during
    Turkey- Armenia football match

    BAKU Oct 15


    Baku has expressed a formal protest to Turkey over disrespect for the
    Azerbaijani national flag during the football match between Turkey and
    Armenia in Bursa on October 14.

    Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov has summoned to the Foreign
    Ministry the Turkish charge d'affaires in Azerbaijan, the Azeri
    Foreign Ministry said in a press statement.

    The statement does not specify what exactly was interpreted by Baku as
    disrespect for the Azeri flag.

    Meanwhile, Interfax has learnt that the Turkish authorities did not
    allow football fans to bring Azeri flags to the stadium so as not to
    politicize the match between the Turkey and Armenian national teams,
    which was attended by the two countries' presidents.

    Turkish and Azeri television channels showed images of several Azeri
    flags seized from fans by security officers at the entry to the
    stadium dumped on the ground.
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