EX-TURKISH DEFENSE MINISTER: "IT IS NECESSARY TO DEMAND RETURNING AZERBAIJANI TERRITORIES"

Regnum, Russia
Nov 23 2006

"Observers at a congress of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
saw that mistakes made by us in past had been eliminated and the
Nationalist Movement will come to power," MHP Deputy Chairman,
ex-Turkish Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu is quoted by Azeri
Press Agency as stating in Ankara. According to him, after the
congress was over, even some newspapers and TV-channels admitted
that. Cakmakoglu stressed he believed that the mass media would
support the MHP because the Nationalist movement is movement of
the Turkish people and state. According to him, the movement became
stronger after the congress, and he was glad because of that. The
politicians expressed hope that his people would liberate themselves
from oppression and pressure at the next elections.

Cakmakoglu stated that ruling parties made serous mistakes in many
issues. According to him, governmental policy should be determined by
stable and right principles. Turkey should insist on returning Turkic
lands forcefully taken away from Azerbaijan because Azerbaijani lands
are Turkic ones. Speaking to the agency, Mr. Camakogly criticized
the EU policy directed, according to him, against Turkey.

Camakoglu stressed that Azerbaijan is the closets country to Turkey
among all Turkic states. He cited Turkish ancestors who allegedly
said about Turkey and Azerbaijan: "We are one nation in two states."

According to him, all Turkic states which gained independence in 1991
are states of the same nation. The Turkish politician is sure Turkey
and Azerbaijan should be together until Azerbaijani lands occupied
by Armenia are liberated.