Artak Shakaryan: Turkey frustrating Azerbaijan’s plans

Artak Shakaryan: Turkey frustrating Azerbaijan’s plans
07.11.2009 16:32 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish-Azerbaijani controversy on normalization of
Armenia-Turkey relations is often taken for a political game aiming to
press on Armenia and compel it to compromise but, actually, it’s not
so, according to an Armenian expert.

`Turkey is not a pro-Azerbaijani country any longer. Earlier,
Islamists were trying to gain power with arms. Now they are doing it
with economic tools,’ Artak Shakaryan told a news conference on
Saturday.

`Turkey is no longer willing to defend Azerbaijan’s interests as it
did before. These two countries are not an unsplittable unity. The
closed Armenian-Turkish border was a fundamental principle for
Azerbaijan in the Karabakh issue. Normalizing relations with Armenia,
Turkey breaks the current state of affairs,’ he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS