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ZEYNALOV DENIES WARNING OVER PKK-ARMENIA CONNECTION
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Dec 4 2007
Azerbaijan's consul general has denied suggestions that his government
supplied Turkish and Azerbaijani officials with information linking
the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)
terrorist group to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Azeri Consul General in Kars Hasan Sultanoðlu Zeynalov made a statement
about a news article published on Nov. 30 by Today's Zaman which stated
that the PKK, faced with increasing pressure to end its activities
in northern Iraq, may be seeking to re-establish its camps in the
Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Zeynalov emphasized that he had never said, "We informed both the
Azerbaijani and Turkish governments of the situation."
In his statement Zeynalov said: "Many press and media organs have
revealed the connections that exist between the PKK and ASALA. We
also read in the newspapers that some PKK militants seized by Turkish
security forces both dead and alive were actually Armenians. These
connections between the PKK and ASALA were revealed by independent
press and media organs, not by us. However, it is out of the question
that we have warned either the Azerbaijani or the Turkish government
about PKK efforts to buy land in Armenia or Nagorno-Karabakh. We
don't have a duty to warn governments, and we have done no such thing."
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Today's Zaman, Turkey
Dec 4 2007
Azerbaijan's consul general has denied suggestions that his government
supplied Turkish and Azerbaijani officials with information linking
the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)
terrorist group to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Azeri Consul General in Kars Hasan Sultanoðlu Zeynalov made a statement
about a news article published on Nov. 30 by Today's Zaman which stated
that the PKK, faced with increasing pressure to end its activities
in northern Iraq, may be seeking to re-establish its camps in the
Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Zeynalov emphasized that he had never said, "We informed both the
Azerbaijani and Turkish governments of the situation."
In his statement Zeynalov said: "Many press and media organs have
revealed the connections that exist between the PKK and ASALA. We
also read in the newspapers that some PKK militants seized by Turkish
security forces both dead and alive were actually Armenians. These
connections between the PKK and ASALA were revealed by independent
press and media organs, not by us. However, it is out of the question
that we have warned either the Azerbaijani or the Turkish government
about PKK efforts to buy land in Armenia or Nagorno-Karabakh. We
don't have a duty to warn governments, and we have done no such thing."
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