Headlines:
- Cemil Cicek: Int’l organizations still maintain double-standard position on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Nawaz, Erdogan vow to defend Saudi Arabia
- Gulerce denies Sabah’s slanderous headline targeting Gulen movement
Cemil Cicek: Int’l organizations still maintain double-standard position on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
“Armenia must liberate Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region and the surrounding districts it has occupied”
Moscow. Farid Akbarov – APA. The position of Turkey on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is clear. On all platforms, we reiterate the importance of a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and liberation of the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia.
Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Cemil Cicek made the remarks on Wednesday during a press conference in Moscow, APA’s Moscow correspondent reported.
Asked by the APA correspondent whether he discussed the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict during the meetings with the Russian officials, Cemil Cicek said activities of the OSCE Minsk Group, whose mission is to find a solution to the conflict, are not satisfactory.
“Regretfully, the OSCE Minsk Group fails to do anything for the settlement of this conflict. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict started 23 years ago. Unfortunately, international organizations still maintains a double-standard position on the conflict,” he underlined.
Cicek noted that stability in the South Caucasus is impossible unless the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“Armenia must liberate Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region and the surrounding districts it has occupied,” he added. [Source: Azeri-Press Agency (APA)]
While official figures say that four thousand is lost since Nagorno-Karabakh War, Turkish executives still tries to improve relations between former Soviet Armed Forces servant Serzh Sargsyan leading Armenia and Soviet successor Russia. “Cicek told reporters that Russia is not only a neighbor, but also a country that Ankara attaches importance on a regional and global scale.”
Nawaz, Erdogan vow to defend Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a phone call on Saturday evening to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for deliberations on the latest situation in the Middle East with reference to the Yemen crisis.
The two leaders held a conversation for three quarters of an hour. They discussed the situation in the region and agreed that both countries would accelerate efforts to resolve the situation through peaceful means.
Diplomatic sources told ‘The News’ that Prime Minister Nawaz and President Erdogan were in agreement that the rebels of Yemen were responsible for aggravating the situation and stressed that the Houthis didn’t have any right to overthrow a legitimate government in Yemen that had destabilised the country and the region.
They affirmed that any violation of the territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia would evoke a strong reaction from both the countries. The sources observed that for the first time the two countries had publicly acknowledged the severity of the situation as it could have serious implications for the region.
Pakistan and Turkey agreed to continue close coordination as it was their moral and international obligation to play a role in protecting the countries of the region from devastating instability.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is in touch with various important Muslim leaders in his effort to resolve the ME crisis.
It is likely that Pakistan would send a high-level delegation headed by Adviser to PM on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz to Saudi Arabia soon with a special message from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for the Saudi leadership. The decision would be taken tomorrow (Monday) in high-level meeting here at the PM House
Meanwhile, Sartaj Aziz will have an important meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday (April 14) in Kabul where both will attend a trilateral meeting on Afghanistan. It is likely that they will also have detailed discussions on the Yemen crisis. [Source: The News Pakistan]
As usual pro-American leaders vow to serve their master’s profits in the Middle East.
Gulerce denies Sabah’s slanderous headline targeting Gulen movement
In its main story published on Monday, with a headline reading “Scary prophecy,” Sabah reported that Gulerce said the June 7 election is a matter of life and death for the movement and said the “parallel structure” — a term invented by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to refer to adherents of the faith based Gulen movement — could even commit political murders ahead of the parliamentary election.
Answering a question on what the movement could do before the elections and recalling baseless allegations suggesting assassinations may take place against prominent figures, Gulerce was reported as saying that even political murders could possibly be committed as part of a plan to create chaos before the elections. However, he was not clearly quoted as saying that the Gulen movement would be the perpetrator of the alleged attacks. [Source: Today’s Zaman]
Less than 2 months remain to parliament elections in Turkey and conflict between the two effectual movements in Turkey rises. Fethullah Gulen’s former right arm Huseyin Gulerce told to an Erdogan adherent daily Sabah that it could be political assassinations against popular persons. But he soon denied this from his twitter account.