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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan affirms, during his official visit to Azerbaijan, that “if the people of Armenia learn the lessons learned from what happened in Nagorno Karabakh, it will be the beginning of a new era.”
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during a press conference after their meeting in Baku (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkey can open its borders to Armenia “if it takes positive steps to establish peace in the region.”
Erdogan said that he discussed with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, during his visit to Baku today, the formation of a regional cooperation forum that includes 6 countries.
Earlier this month, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called for a regional economic partnership that includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, Turkey and Russia, adding that his country “wants long-term peace.”
The Turkish president declared that he is “in conflict with the leadership of Armenia and not with the people”, stressing that Armenia can participate in the proposed regional forum with Turkey, Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia “if it contributes to establishing peace in the region”.
The Turkish president renewed his call for a change of leadership in Armenia, adding: “We wish the Armenian people to be freed from the burden of leaders who consoled them with the lies of the past and left them trapped in poverty.”
“If the people of Armenia learn the lessons of what happened in Nagorno Karabakh, it will be the beginning of a new era,” he said.
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Erdogan stressed, during an official visit to Azerbaijan, that “saving their lands from occupation does not mean that the fighting is over.”
On the sidelines of a military parade in the capital Baku, Erdogan said that “the fighting in the political and military spheres will continue on many other fronts.”
For his part, Aliyev pointed out that Erdogan “supported our position and our just cause from the beginning”, considering that “participating in this show to celebrate the victory together once again demonstrates our unity, not only to the peoples of the two states, but to the whole world ”.
Erdogan’s two-day visit is the first by a foreign head of state to Azerbaijan since the ceasefire that ended several weeks of fighting in early November and enshrined Baku’s gains from the territory of the Nagorno Karabakh region. .
It is noteworthy that Russia has deployed peacekeepers in the region, with the aim of complying with the ceasefire agreement sponsored by Moscow, which provides for the evacuation of Armenians to areas they controlled for 30 years.
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