TURKISH EXPERT: "TURKEY’S INTENTION TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA MAKE BAKU GET SILENT"
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Dec 22 2008
Azerbaijan
"Azerbaijan’s reaction to Turkey’s idea to normalize relations with
Armenia is surprising. Azerbaijan does not react, resist and is calm",
said Burchu Gultekin, expert of the Center of European Studies of
Turkish Near Eastern Technical University.
"Moreover, we hope for resolution of the Karabakh conflict, which
may promote the development of economic relations in conditions of
unblocked borders of Armenia and Turkey. And in this sense the opening
of border with Armenia is not a sufficient provision for Turkey,
which would want to diversify routes of access to the Caspian region.
Turkey is also interested in opening of borders and its efforts for
normalization of relations with Armenia make Baku get silent. Moreover,
I think that such developments were viewed as a variant in the
resolution of the Karabakh conflict in Baku", noted Gultekin.