AYBARS GORGULU: TURKEY COULD DO MUCH FOR KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.11.2008 14:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey supports Azerbaijan because it thinks
that Armenia violated the norms of the international law, a Turkish
expert said.

"Turkey closed the border with Armenia in 1993 in response to its
aggression against Azerbaijan and obliged to open it after Azerbaijan
and Armenia seal a peace agreement," Aybars Gorgulu, expert at Sabanci
University and Assistant Program Director of TESEV Foreign Policy
Program said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.

Turkey could do much for resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,
according to him.

"The closed border caused polarization of forces in the region with
Turkey, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia on the one hand and Russia,
Iran and Armenia on the other. Instability in the Caucasus, especially
after the South Ossetian war, gave Turkey the idea of the Caucasus
Platform, which received a positive feedback from the international
community. Reverting to the opening of borders, both sides will benefit
from it. The current $300-million commodity turnover between Armenia
and Turkey will considerably increase and replenish the state budget,"
Gorgulu said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress