Armenian-Turkish normalization will face difficulties until Garabagh conflict is solved - Erdogan
The process of normalizing Turkish-Armenian relations will face
difficulties until the problem between Azerbaijan and Armenia is
solved, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in
televised address to the nation on Friday.
According to Erdogan, during his meeting with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan in Washington, he talked in detail about the expectations of Turkey in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict and the steps his country intends to take to resolve the conflict, CNN Turk reported.
"It was very important for us", said the Turkish PM.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a cease-fire in 1994, but Armenia continues to occupy Upper Garabagh and seven other Azerbaijani districts in defiance of international law. Despite numerous rounds of OSCE-brokered negotiations, peace talks have been fruitless so far and refugees remain stranded. Baku says the occupied districts must be freed and Azerbaijani refugees displaced during the armed conflict in the early 1990s returned home, and only after that could the status of Upper Garabagh be determined within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.*
According to Erdogan, during his meeting with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan in Washington, he talked in detail about the expectations of Turkey in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict and the steps his country intends to take to resolve the conflict, CNN Turk reported.
"It was very important for us", said the Turkish PM.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a cease-fire in 1994, but Armenia continues to occupy Upper Garabagh and seven other Azerbaijani districts in defiance of international law. Despite numerous rounds of OSCE-brokered negotiations, peace talks have been fruitless so far and refugees remain stranded. Baku says the occupied districts must be freed and Azerbaijani refugees displaced during the armed conflict in the early 1990s returned home, and only after that could the status of Upper Garabagh be determined within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.*
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