AZERBAIJAN ACTIVATES TURKEY
Lragir.am
20/04/10
The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan confirmed the information that
the exercises scheduled for the upcoming May and agreed beforehand
in accord with the agreement on a bilateral military cooperation
between Azerbaijan and U.S. are suspended. Official figures did not
say what it is connected with. However, obviously, this step is aimed
at showing to the U.S. Baku’s "dissatisfaction".
It is interesting that alongside with this, Baku took up a regular
PR-operation against the co-chairs of the Minsk group and stated
about the necessity to involve Turkey in it. The foreign minister
Elmar Mamedyarov underlined: "For us the most important issue is the
activation of the process of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue with the help
of Turkey".
Turkey itself states that Karabakh is not a demand of it but one of
Azerbaijan. Though the tie between the Armenian and Turkish process
and the NKR issue is not mentioned in the protocols, the Turkish Prime
Minister Erdogan stated: "The text of the protocol contains such an
expression – "to ensure peace in the region". Currently, for this
purpose there is a problem between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We need
to strive to ensure peace because it is the reason of the closure
of borders".
Noteworthy the Turkish premier is so confident that he announced about
Turkey’s shifting to the presidential form of administration. This is
interesting against the backdrop of the rumors that Erdogan himself
is going to promote his candidacy for president in 2012. The German
Die Presse responded to this with an article entitled "Presidential
form of administration in Turkey is called Sultanate".
Interestingly, against this background Israel temporarily imposes
an embargo on armament supply to Turkey. The Turkish Today’s Zaman
writes citing the British Jane’s Defence Weekly. According to the
British weekly, the Israeli party makes such a step because of the
anti-Israeli statements of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress