TURKEY WILL STOP USING KARABAKH AS A PRECONDITION FOR NORMALIZATION OF TIES WITH ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
02.04.2009 19:32 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Sooner or later NKR conflict will be excluded
from Turkey’s external policy and won’t be used as a precondition
for normalization of ties with Armenia, Armenian turkologist Artak
Shakaryan told a news conference in Yerevan.

"In recent years Turkey is trying to act as an intermediary in all
regional conflicts: NKR, US-Iranian, Georgian- Russian. Yet, Ankara
understands that until it supports pro-Azeri position in NKR conflict,
it can’t act as an intermediary in the settlement of the issue,"
the Armenian turkologist noted.

According to Artak Shakaryan, if Turkey wishes to be a leader in the
implementation of collaboration and stability platform in the Caucasus,
it will stop using Karabakh as a precondition for normalization of
ties with Armenia.