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Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
July 15 2013
Azerbaijan, Turkey hold joint drill
ANKARA / BAKU
The Turkish and Azerbaijani armies launched a joint military
exercises on July 12 that will run in Baku and Nakhchivan until July
28.
According to a statement issued late July 12 by the Turkish General
Staff, the aim of the exercises is to strengthen the military
cooperation between the two countries and share information and
experience.
The land forces of the two countries will be involved in the war games
where an infantry division will be involved in the Baku exercises,
while a mechanized infantry division will take part in the exercises
in Nakhchivan.
The drill came as the prosecutor general of Armenia, Aghvan Hovsepyan,
recently said Armenia should re-obtain its lost territories as the
100th anniversary of the 1915 killings at the hands of the Ottomans
approaches.
During a presentation at the Pan-Armenian Forum of Lawyers held in
Yerevan on July 5-6, Hovsepyan said victims of the killings should
receive material compensation and that church lands should be returned
to the Armenian Church.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed fury at Hovsepyan's declaration
that the border between Turkey and Armenia has never been legally
established and that lost Armenian land should be returned to Armenia.
`Such a declaration made by an official occupying a position as
important as that of prosecutor general reflects the prevailing
problematic mentality in Armenia as to the territorial integrity of
its neighbor Turkey and to Turkish-Armenian relations and also
contradicts the obligations it has undertaken toward the international
organizations of which it is a member, particularly the U.N. and the
OSCE. One should be well aware that no one can presume to claim land
from Turkey,' the statement said.
Turkey and Azerbaijan have growing political, economic and military
ties, particularly with a project to carry gas from Azerbaijan to
Europe through the Trans-Adriatic-Pipeline (TAP), which will traverse
Turkey and Greece.
July/15/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/azerbaijan-turkey-hold-joint-drill.aspx?pageID=238&nID=50695&NewsCatID=338
July 15 2013
Azerbaijan, Turkey hold joint drill
ANKARA / BAKU
The Turkish and Azerbaijani armies launched a joint military
exercises on July 12 that will run in Baku and Nakhchivan until July
28.
According to a statement issued late July 12 by the Turkish General
Staff, the aim of the exercises is to strengthen the military
cooperation between the two countries and share information and
experience.
The land forces of the two countries will be involved in the war games
where an infantry division will be involved in the Baku exercises,
while a mechanized infantry division will take part in the exercises
in Nakhchivan.
The drill came as the prosecutor general of Armenia, Aghvan Hovsepyan,
recently said Armenia should re-obtain its lost territories as the
100th anniversary of the 1915 killings at the hands of the Ottomans
approaches.
During a presentation at the Pan-Armenian Forum of Lawyers held in
Yerevan on July 5-6, Hovsepyan said victims of the killings should
receive material compensation and that church lands should be returned
to the Armenian Church.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed fury at Hovsepyan's declaration
that the border between Turkey and Armenia has never been legally
established and that lost Armenian land should be returned to Armenia.
`Such a declaration made by an official occupying a position as
important as that of prosecutor general reflects the prevailing
problematic mentality in Armenia as to the territorial integrity of
its neighbor Turkey and to Turkish-Armenian relations and also
contradicts the obligations it has undertaken toward the international
organizations of which it is a member, particularly the U.N. and the
OSCE. One should be well aware that no one can presume to claim land
from Turkey,' the statement said.
Turkey and Azerbaijan have growing political, economic and military
ties, particularly with a project to carry gas from Azerbaijan to
Europe through the Trans-Adriatic-Pipeline (TAP), which will traverse
Turkey and Greece.
July/15/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/azerbaijan-turkey-hold-joint-drill.aspx?pageID=238&nID=50695&NewsCatID=338