TURKEY’S PRESIDENT HOPES KARABAKH ISSUE BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN & ARMENIA TO BE SOLVED

Anatolia News Agency
Sept 10 2008
Turkey

BAKU (A.A) -Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul said on Wednesday that he
hoped Karabakh issue between Azerbaijan and Armenia would be solved
through dialogue, understanding and mutual talks.

Holding a joint press conference with Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev in Baku, Gul said that they discussed bilateral and regional
matters.

Gul said that relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan were perfect
in every aspect. "Turkey has always supported Azerbaijan in political
issues; and will continue to do so," he added.

Gul gave Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway
projects as examples to good economic relations between Turkey and
Azerbaijan.

Gul said that they assessed the new situation in Caucasus during the
meeting and he also briefed Aliyev about his meeting with Armenian
President Serzh Sargsian.

Gul said that Aliyev’s Caucasus vision and his realist analysis about
Caucasus impressed him very much.