AZERBAIJAN STANDS UP FOR ERGENEKON
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Aug 28 2009
Armenia
A number of Azerbaijani parliamentarians have made a request to
Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Premier Recep Erdogan for the
release of the well-known surgeon Mehmet Haberal, Rector of BaÅ~_kent
University (Turkish: BaÅ~_kent Universitesi) and owner of Kanal B,
who is one of the arrestees in the Ergenekon case. The Turkey-based
nethaber.com website reports that the parliamentarians handed their
request to the Turkish Premier during his visit to Baku. "We ask you
to do all in your power for Mr. Mehmet Haberal to be released," says
the letter. The vesti.az website names the Azeri parliamentarians
that submitted the request: Panakh Gusein, Arzu Samedbeili, Rafik
Mamedgasanov, Ikram Israfil, and Nasib Nasibly.
Panakh Gusein confirmed the information. He pointed out that the
request was submitted on Arzu Samedbeili’s initiative. In his turn,
Samedbeili said that the parliamentarians regarded such a request as
necessary, considering Professor Haberal’s services to Azerbaijan.
According to the information at our disposal, the Ergenekon movement
has formed a wide network in Azerbaijan. According to some information,
the radical movement receives support from Israel, which is thereby
influencing the political situation in Turkey. This fact was not
the last to make for a cooldown in the Turkish-Israeli relations —
which developed in a scandal in Davos — as well as for Israel’s
establishing closer relations with Azerbaijan against the attempts of
the ruling Turkish Justice and Development Party to improve relations
with Armenia.