Turkey has nothing to do in the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) process.

Eduard Sharmazanov, former ruling Republican Party of Armenia Vice-Chairman and Spokesperson as well as outgoing vice-speaker of the National Assembly, wrote the abovementioned on Facebook.

“The day before, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu made a precarious and impermissible statement, linking Armenian-Turkish relations directly to the Artsakh [conflict’s] settlement,” Sharmazanov wrote. “

1. The Artsakh settlement and the Armenian-Turkish issue are two different processes, and it is impermissible to link them to one another.

“2. Armenia’s new power is obligated to strongly react to this absurdity by Çavuşoğlu.

“3. Turkey has nothing to do in the Artsakh issue; there is the OSCE Co-Chairmanship for that.

“4. The international recognition of Artsakh’s independence is just a matter of time.

“5. Turkey’s policy of dictating preconditions is reprehensible.”