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AZERBAIJANI EXPERT: OFFICIAL BAKU SIMPLY HAS NO MORAL RIGHT TO RESPOND TO LATEST UNREST IN TURKEY
ARMINFO
Thursday, June 20, 13:01
Official Baku simply has no moral right to respond to the latest
unrest in Turkey, said Arastun Oruclu, the head of the East-West
Research Center in Baku, in response to ArmInfo's question in an
on-line press conference.
The Azerbaijani authorities have not responded anyway to the latest
processes in Turkey, except dispersal of protesters from the area
of the Turkish Embassy in Baku. It was the first protest in front of
the Turkish Embassy in Baku in the history of Azerbaijan.
"Official Baku's relations with Erdogan's government are very
sensitive and a hasty response to what is happening in Turkey may
break that fragile relations. Therefore, the Azerbaijani authorities
refrain from any actions so far. In addition, with its big problems
with human rights and freedoms, official Baku has not even a moral
right to any response, I think," the expert says.
The parties will sit at a negotiating table and find a certain
compromise, as the latest developments proved that stability in a
country, including in Turkey, cannot be maintained via pressure on
political opponents, he said. This will have no significant impact
on Azerbaijan, because the political systems are quite different
despite many other common factors. Oruclu believes that the unrest
in Turkey is largely connected with domestic factors, as the ruling
AKP has been recently ousting secular traditions of Kemalism too
actively. The known arrests in the top echelons of the army, which
aroused no public response, encouraged the ruling circles in Turkey
to continue their course.
Asked if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's replacement with Hassan Rouhani in Iran
will make any corrections to the deteriorating Azerbaijani-Iranian
relations, Oruclu said that there will be no fundamental changes
as long as official Tehran perceives existence of the Azerbaijani
statehood as a threat to its national security.
Joint online press conference of experts from various countries for
Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian mass media on the relevant problems
are organized within the project "Expansion of knowledge of Armenians
and Azerbaijanis about each other and confidence building through
first-hand information". The project of the "Region" Research Center
(Armenia) and Peace and Democracy Institute (Azerbaijan) is supported
by the British Embassies in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
ARMINFO
Thursday, June 20, 13:01
Official Baku simply has no moral right to respond to the latest
unrest in Turkey, said Arastun Oruclu, the head of the East-West
Research Center in Baku, in response to ArmInfo's question in an
on-line press conference.
The Azerbaijani authorities have not responded anyway to the latest
processes in Turkey, except dispersal of protesters from the area
of the Turkish Embassy in Baku. It was the first protest in front of
the Turkish Embassy in Baku in the history of Azerbaijan.
"Official Baku's relations with Erdogan's government are very
sensitive and a hasty response to what is happening in Turkey may
break that fragile relations. Therefore, the Azerbaijani authorities
refrain from any actions so far. In addition, with its big problems
with human rights and freedoms, official Baku has not even a moral
right to any response, I think," the expert says.
The parties will sit at a negotiating table and find a certain
compromise, as the latest developments proved that stability in a
country, including in Turkey, cannot be maintained via pressure on
political opponents, he said. This will have no significant impact
on Azerbaijan, because the political systems are quite different
despite many other common factors. Oruclu believes that the unrest
in Turkey is largely connected with domestic factors, as the ruling
AKP has been recently ousting secular traditions of Kemalism too
actively. The known arrests in the top echelons of the army, which
aroused no public response, encouraged the ruling circles in Turkey
to continue their course.
Asked if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's replacement with Hassan Rouhani in Iran
will make any corrections to the deteriorating Azerbaijani-Iranian
relations, Oruclu said that there will be no fundamental changes
as long as official Tehran perceives existence of the Azerbaijani
statehood as a threat to its national security.
Joint online press conference of experts from various countries for
Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian mass media on the relevant problems
are organized within the project "Expansion of knowledge of Armenians
and Azerbaijanis about each other and confidence building through
first-hand information". The project of the "Region" Research Center
(Armenia) and Peace and Democracy Institute (Azerbaijan) is supported
by the British Embassies in Armenia and Azerbaijan.