TURKEY NOT INVOLVED IN ANY PHASE OF AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA TENSION
Anadolu Agency (AA)
September 5, 2012 Wednesday
Turkey
Turkish spokesman has said that efforts to make Turkey a target in
a recent tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia was a new defamation
campaign against Turkey.
ANKARA
Turkish spokesman has said that efforts to make Turkey a target in
a recent tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia was a new defamation
campaign against Turkey.
Turkey was not involved in any phase of recent tension between
Azerbaijan and Armenia, Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said
on Wednesday.
Ramil Safarov who killed Armenian soldier Gurgen Markarian at a
military academy in Budapest in 2004 was sentenced to life imprisonment
and then he was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan.
Later he was given an official pardon by President Ilham Aliyev after
returning to his country.
Unal said that reactions by Armenian diaspora in the United States
over the issue were directed towards Turkey, stating that Turkey was
not involved in any phase of it. Some malicious circles tried to make
Turkey a target and it was another defamation campaign against Turkey,
he added.
Anadolu Agency (AA)
September 5, 2012 Wednesday
Turkey
Turkish spokesman has said that efforts to make Turkey a target in
a recent tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia was a new defamation
campaign against Turkey.
ANKARA
Turkish spokesman has said that efforts to make Turkey a target in
a recent tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia was a new defamation
campaign against Turkey.
Turkey was not involved in any phase of recent tension between
Azerbaijan and Armenia, Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said
on Wednesday.
Ramil Safarov who killed Armenian soldier Gurgen Markarian at a
military academy in Budapest in 2004 was sentenced to life imprisonment
and then he was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan.
Later he was given an official pardon by President Ilham Aliyev after
returning to his country.
Unal said that reactions by Armenian diaspora in the United States
over the issue were directed towards Turkey, stating that Turkey was
not involved in any phase of it. Some malicious circles tried to make
Turkey a target and it was another defamation campaign against Turkey,
he added.