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 ANKARA
(News.az)—Turkey will intensify efforts to raise Azerbaijan’s
interests in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as it negotiates with
Armenia to normalize relations and open borders, Turkish
President Abdullah Gul said Thursday, the Azeri news.az online
news portal reported.
The
Turkish leader said his government would “intensify discussion”
on Armenia’s withdrawal from the Armenian territories liberated
from Azeri rule during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. “There is
no doubt Azerbaijan’s occupied lands belong to Azerbaijan,” Gul
said in remarks at the inauguration of a new building for the
International Strategic Research Center in Ankara.
Gul
said he believes this would “help solve many problems in the
region,” exacerbated since the Russian-Georgian war in August
2008. The conflict over South Ossetia, the Turkish leader added,
demonstrated that “frozen conflicts” in the Caucasus can
“escalate into war at any time.”
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