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    TURKISH PUBLICIST: HAVING LINKED ITS RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ARMENIA WITH THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT TURKEY HAS BECOME A PARTY TO IT

    arminfo
    Wednesday, January 23, 09:38

    Having linked its rapprochement with Armenia with the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict Turkey has become a party to it, well-known Turkish human
    rights defender, the owner of Belge Publishing House Ragip Zarakolu
    said at a press-conference in Yerevan on Tuesday.

    He said that by supporting Azerbaijan Turkey is preventing the
    settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    Zarakolu believes that the conflict was a result of nationalist
    moods in Baku - something that urged the Armenian people to demand
    self-determination in order to avoid a new genocide.

    Zarakolu said that being an advocate of self-determination for other
    nations, Ankara does not wish to give this right to the Armenians. And
    this is the key obstacle to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict and the key proof that Pan-Turkism is still alive in Turkey.

    Zarakolu believes that Turkey's refusal to open its border with
    Armenia is a shameful act. He admitted that Armenia did it best to
    improve its relations with Turkey, while Turkey did all it could to
    wreck this process. Though saying that Kurds and the Armenian Genocide
    constitute a threat to its national security, Turkey has got involved
    into a dangerous adventure in Syria.

    According to Zarakolu, now that the Turkish society is becoming more
    civilized, this unacceptable position is changing. There are a number
    of human rights organizations in Turkey that have already begun to
    commemorate Apr 24 as the Day of the Armenian Genocide. "This is a
    hard process, but it has already been started," Zarakolu said.

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