TURKEY REASSURES AZERBAIJAN OVER ARMENIAN BORDER

AZG DAILY
2009-10-14 00:21:37 (GMT +04:00)
Armenia-Turkey-Azerbaijan

Turkey has given Azerbaijan fresh assurances that it will not normalize
relations with Armenia until a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict satisfying Azerbaijani demands.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated on Tuesday that further
progress in the Karabakh peace process will be a determining factor
in the consideration by the Turkish parliament of the Turkish-Armenian
agreements signed in Zurich over the weekend.

"The parliament will look at the developments in the problems between
Azerbaijan and Armenia," AFP news agency quoted Erdogan as telling a
meeting of his party’s lawmakers, who hold the majority of seats in
Turkey’s Grand National Assembly.

"If the problems… are put on the track of solution, the Turkish
people will embrace more the normalization of Turkish-Armenian
relations and the Turkish parliament’s ratification of the protocols
will become much easier," he said, Azatutyun reports.