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Araz Alizade: Turkey can easily neglect Azerbaijan’s interests
20.12.2008 13:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Many Turks erroneously hope that accession to the
European Union will bring them welfare, according to an Azeri
politician.

"To become a member of the EU, Turkey should recognize the Armenian
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire," said Araz Alizade, chairman of the
Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan.

"Turkey can easily neglect Azerbaijan’s interests if Armenians
renounce financial compensation for the 1915 events. The whole thing
is money. If Turkey, which has over $160 billion debt, is imposed
payment of compensations, it will have no future," he said.

"One should not hope that Turkey will press for return of Nagorno
Karabakh to Azerbaijan," Alizade concluded.