TURKISH COMPANY DENIES REPORTS OF WORKING WITH STEPANAKERT AIRPORT

Tert.am
23.06.11

Turkish embassy in Baku is trying to find out what the Turkish company
Demirci Makina has to do with the construction of the Stepanakert
airport.

An official at the embassy has told the Azerbaijani news agency
1news.az that if the sale of equipment to the airport is confirmed,
the company will be persecuted under Turkish laws.

However, Demirci Makina manager Akif Tamim has dismissed the reports
of an alleged deal.

“We have never worked with Armenia. We have sold the equipment
mentioned in the reports to our Iranian partners and we don’t know
whom they have resold it,” Tamim said.

Earlier, Dmitri Adbashyan, the head of the Nagorno Karabakh Civil
Aviation Department, had said his department had already purchased
equipment from the Turkish company Demirci Makina.

Adbashyan said they got a good deal from the Turkish company; they
provide the equipment at much better prices than European and Chinese
companies.