IS TURKEY USING NAGORNO KARABAKH TO GET RID OF KURDISH PROBLEM?

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.02.2009 18:59 GMT+04:00

Shushi Charitable Foundation Head Bakur Karapetyan addressed an open
letter to Karabakh Conflict Settlement OSCE MG Co-Chairs: Matthew
Bryza (United States), Bernard Fassier ( France), Yury Merzlyakov
(Russia). The letter said "Recently I headed for Gyulistan with a
group of people from NKR Shahumyan Region. We were fired at as we
were approaching NKR – Azerbaijan frontier. Those who shot at us
were not border guards, yet it was clear they were given permission
to shoot. After the incident, I collected information on armed
militants. According to Azeri media, within last two years Kurdish
armed groups moved from Turkey to Azerbaijan, having settled at
NKR-Azerbajjan frontier and the adjoining territories "

"Baku and Ankara decided to settle these territories with Kurdish
militants, trying to divert Kurds’ attention from Turkey to
Karabakh. We should’t forget that Turkey, who solved the Armenian
Problem in 1915-1923 by means of the Genocide, gained a Kurdish
problem, which is not easier. Now the Turkish part believes it has
found a way out, resettling those Kurds in Karabakh ", noted Bakur
Karapetyan. He expressed hope that the international community won’t
allow resumption of war between NKR and Azerbaijan, and will do its
best to stop the export of terrorism from Turkey to South Caucasus. "We
demand OSCE MG Member States and international organizations to take
drastic steps to prevent the appearance of new terrorism sources
in the South Caucasus and provide the security of Armenia and NKR",
Karapetyan emphasized.