{"id":16379,"date":"2009-12-08T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16379"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:45:12","slug":"turkey-armenia-ties-connected-to-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/12\/08\/turkey-armenia-ties-connected-to-karabakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey-Armenia Ties Connected to Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"entryMeta\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">After White House Meeting, Erdogan Says  Turkey-Armenia Ties Connected to Karabakh<\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"authorsub\">By <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.asbarez.com\/author\/asbarez-staff\/\">Asbarez Staff<\/span> on Dec  7th, 2009<\/p>\n<div><span id=\"sharethis_0\"><span title=\"javascript:void(0)\"><br title=\"javascript:void(0)\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 328px;\">Read the Press Conference Transcript<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Combined Sources)\u2014Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan  told reporters after his meeting with President Obama that the normalization of  Armenia-Turkey relations was contingent on the resolution of the Karabakh  conflict.<\/p>\n<p>According to Erdogan, the US and Turkish leaders discussed relations between  Azerbaijan and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is important in the context of relations between Turkey and Armenia,\u201d  he said, adding that the two also discussed the Karabakh conflict within the  framework of the OSCE Minsk Group.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, Obama said Erdogan had been  \u201ccourageous\u201d in his efforts to normalize the decades-old resentment and  bitterness.<\/p>\n<p>Obama and Erdogan were also reported to have discussed Iran. According to  Reuters, Obama said on Monday that Turkey could be an \u201cimportant player\u201d in  efforts to resolve the long-running dispute over Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>The US President made the statement during a White House meeting with  Erdogan, who said his country stands ready to do whatever it can to achieve a  diplomatic solution to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said he had stressed the importance of resolving the dispute \u201cin a way  that allows Iran to pursue peaceful nuclear energy, but provides assurances that  it will abide by international rules and norms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Turkey can be an important player in trying to move Iran in  that direction,\u201d the president was quoted as saying by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Obama also praised Turkey for its role in Afghanistan, where it has some  1,700 troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After White House Meeting, Erdogan Says Turkey-Armenia Ties Connected to Karabakh By Asbarez Staff on Dec 7th, 2009 Read the Press Conference Transcript WASHINGTON (Combined Sources)\u2014Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters after his meeting with President Obama that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations was contingent on the resolution of the Karabakh conflict. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":52898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[145,1571,78,120,204,1153,1018,2129],"class_list":["post-16379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","tag-barack-obama","tag-ahmet-davutoglu","tag-ergenekon","tag-gulen","tag-nagorno-karabakh","tag-politics","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey-and-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}