AZERI MEDIA, TURKISH DIPLOMACY: EPISODE OF LIFE
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Sept 11 2009
Armenia
18:31 / 09/11/2009Azerbaijani propaganda continues its desperate
efforts to slander and disport the facts. The Vesti.az webzine has
disgraced itself today by trying to pass a photo of a killed Georgian
soldier for an Armenian one allegedly killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict zone. After the dirty trick was laid bare, the webzine
changed the picture: you can now see brave Armenian soldiers on the
alert for any threat to peace in the conflict zone.
It is noteworthy, however, that, after getting off on the wrong foot,
the unlucky Azeri propagandists did not abandon their disinformation
efforts.
We would remind our readers of Azeri media’s recent reports on a
skirmish on the contact line between the Armenian and Azerbaijani
troops in the Aghdam sector. Yesterday, the Azeri media, referring
to an unofficial source, reported that five Armenian soldiers
had been killed, whereas only one Azeri soldier was wounded. The
Ministry of Defense of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) officially
refuted the information. . "It is a figment of imagination of Azeri
propaganda. There was no skirmish. The Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces
are in full control of the contact line, making the Azerbaijani side
honor the 1994 cease-fire agreement," stated Senor Asratyan, Press
Secretary of the NKR Ministry of Defense.
Nonetheless, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who appears
to implicitly trust Azeri journalists’ professional skills, called
his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov to "express regret over the
incident on the front line, which caused the death of five Armenian
soldiers." Minister Davutoglu expressed hope that "nothing like that
[would] recur." The Turkish media reported this information without
specifying Mamedyarov’s reaction to his Turkish counterpart’s regret
over the "death of five Armenian soldiers" or the reason why Davutoglu
did not call his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandyan to express
his regret over the "one wounded Azeri soldier." Moreover, we have to
state the fact that the regret was expressed to Baku, not Yerevan,
as the incident, if it took place at all, was provoked by the Azeri
side. In this case, we suppose the talk between the Davutoglu and
Mamedyarov had nothing in common with the alleged incident.
A smart plot, isn’t it?
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
