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TURKISH PM AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSS NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
dec 10 2013
10 December 2013 - 1:22pm
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President
Vladimir Putin have discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Moscow.
The talks were preceded by a meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan in Vienna on November 19
and a meeting of their foreign ministers at an OSCE summit in Kiev
on December 4.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey was
interested in a normalization of Azerbaijani-Armenian ties. Davugotlu
said a few days before attending the BSEC summit in Yerevan that Turkey
considered it a good moment for peace initiatives for Nagorno-Karabakh.
Sinan Ogan, a member of the Turkish parliament and Director of the
Center for Strategic Studies (TURKSAM), said that Russia and Turkey
had a common interest in the settlement of the conflict. He noted
that Europe and America saw the need for resolution of the problem.
Ogan emphasized that Turkey had thought that Russia was interested
in the conflict. The attitude has now changed and they realized
that isolation of Armenia meant isolation of Russia in the South
Caucasus.Sergey Mikheyev, Director General of the Institute for
Caspian Cooperation said that Russia and Turkey were had a common
interest because Turkey did not want the conflict to escalate. Russia
is a member of the OSCE Minsk Group and always wants the conflict
to be resolved, Turkey wants it only 'sometimes,' when it needs to
support Azerbaijan.
The expert added that the offer of Europe to normalize relations with
Turkey for signing the association agreement was in force.
Hasan Selim Ozertem, an analyst of USAK, noted that Nagorno-Karabakh
had played a great role in the Russian-Turkish relations of the past
20 years. Turkey closed the border for Armenia due to occupation of
Azerbaijani territories by Armenians. Attempts of military action to
resolve the conflict may affect Russian-Turkish relations.
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
dec 10 2013
10 December 2013 - 1:22pm
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President
Vladimir Putin have discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Moscow.
The talks were preceded by a meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan in Vienna on November 19
and a meeting of their foreign ministers at an OSCE summit in Kiev
on December 4.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey was
interested in a normalization of Azerbaijani-Armenian ties. Davugotlu
said a few days before attending the BSEC summit in Yerevan that Turkey
considered it a good moment for peace initiatives for Nagorno-Karabakh.
Sinan Ogan, a member of the Turkish parliament and Director of the
Center for Strategic Studies (TURKSAM), said that Russia and Turkey
had a common interest in the settlement of the conflict. He noted
that Europe and America saw the need for resolution of the problem.
Ogan emphasized that Turkey had thought that Russia was interested
in the conflict. The attitude has now changed and they realized
that isolation of Armenia meant isolation of Russia in the South
Caucasus.Sergey Mikheyev, Director General of the Institute for
Caspian Cooperation said that Russia and Turkey were had a common
interest because Turkey did not want the conflict to escalate. Russia
is a member of the OSCE Minsk Group and always wants the conflict
to be resolved, Turkey wants it only 'sometimes,' when it needs to
support Azerbaijan.
The expert added that the offer of Europe to normalize relations with
Turkey for signing the association agreement was in force.
Hasan Selim Ozertem, an analyst of USAK, noted that Nagorno-Karabakh
had played a great role in the Russian-Turkish relations of the past
20 years. Turkey closed the border for Armenia due to occupation of
Azerbaijani territories by Armenians. Attempts of military action to
resolve the conflict may affect Russian-Turkish relations.