AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL BACKS TURKISH PM’S ARMENIAN COMMENTS

news.az
March 18 2010
Azerbaijan

Ali Hasanov The Turkish government and PM spoke in line with their
country’s interests and were right to do so, an Azerbaijan presidential
official has said.

Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned about the possible
deportation of 100,000 illegal migrants from Armenia in an interview
with the BBC.

The more Turkey helps Armenia, the wider the anti-Turkish policy of
Armenians becomes, Ali Hasanov, head of the public policy department of
Azerbaijan’s presidential administration, told reporters on Wednesday.

He thinks that in this anti-Turkish campaign Armenia will lose as
much as Turkey.

Erdogan made these remarks in response to a question about Ankara’s
reaction to the adoption of resolutions recognizing the killings of
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as ‘genocide’ in the parliaments of
a number of countries.

Turkey recalled its ambassadors from Washington and Stockholm after
the adoption of resolutions in the US House of Representatives Foreign
Affairs Committee and in the Swedish parliament.