{"id":18603,"date":"2010-04-19T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=18603"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:53:36","slug":"turkey-insists-on-karabakh-linkage-for-armenia-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/04\/19\/turkey-insists-on-karabakh-linkage-for-armenia-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Insists On Karabakh Linkage For Armenia Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.rferl.org\/D23BD5B2-FAE8-41B7-B54B-4E2F9676F492_w527_s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Turkey -- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party in Ankara, 19Apr2010\" \/>Turkey &#8212; Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party in Ankara, 19Apr2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>19.04.2010<\/div>\n<p>Turkey has again reiterated its long-standing linkage between the ratification of its fence-mending agreements with Armenia and a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict acceptable to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<div>\n\u201cWe shut the [Turkish-Armenian] border because of the occupation of Azeri soil,\u201d Turkish Prime Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency on Sunday in a report cited by Agence France Presse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe occupation should end so that Turkey can easily open its [border] gates. But if the occupation continues, we will not take such a step,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday dismissed some Armenian pro-government politicians\u2019 suggestions that Ankara might open the frontier without ratifying the Turkish-Armenian protocols. \u201cIt is out of question for Turkey to open its border gate without the ratification of the protocols,\u201d he said, according to Anatolia.<\/p>\n<p>Davutoglu was speaking at a news conference in Ankara ahead of his visit to Azerbaijan, Turkey\u2019s closest regional ally strongly opposed to the unconditional normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks by Erdogan are a further indication that he and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian failed to make further progress in the normalization process at their talks held in Washington last week. The lack of such progress made a unilateral Armenian pullout from the agreements more likely.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Davutoglu insisted that the dramatic Turkish-Armenian rapprochement, which began two years ago, is not over. \u201cWe are positive on the process and we have full confidence that in the end it will lead us to a point,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey &#8212; Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party in Ankara, 19Apr2010 19.04.2010 Turkey has again reiterated its long-standing linkage between the ratification of its fence-mending agreements with Armenia and a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict acceptable to Azerbaijan. \u201cWe shut the [Turkish-Armenian] border because of the occupation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,89],"tags":[2129],"class_list":["post-18603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-turkey","tag-turkey-and-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603","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=18603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}