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    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Jan 5 2015


    So-called Armenian genocide threatening regional peace

    5 January 2015, 17:55 (GMT+04:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Turkish official said the so-called Armenian genocide is a threat to
    peace in the region.

    Mazhar Bagli, a board member of Turkey's ruling Justice and
    Development Party told Trend Agency that Turkey rejects as baseless
    Armenian claim that the events of 1915 amount to "Armenian genocide".

    "Turkey has repeatedly expressed readiness to open its archives to
    investigate the events of 1915 and the country has opened all its
    archives," Bagli said.

    Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that Turkey's predecessor, the
    Ottoman Empire has allegedly carried out "genocide" against Armenians
    living in Anatolia in 1915.

    The Armenians are going to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the myth
    in 2015. Armenia commemorates the alleged genocide on April 24 each
    year.

    Bagli said Armenians' claims regarding the "genocide" will eventually
    lose its meaning thanks the development of relations with brotherly
    Azerbaijan and other brotherly nations.

    Turkey will easily be able to cope with this issue with its increasing
    power, he said.

    Strengthening the efforts to promote the so-called "genocide" in the
    world, Armenians have achieved a recognition for its empty claim by
    the parliaments of some countries.

    Turkey supports the creation of a joint historical commission to
    investigate the events of 1915, but Armenia is unwilling to disclose
    its archives as it fears revealing what the archives may hold.

    Bagli also noted that the double standards with respect to Azerbaijan
    are unacceptable, noting that as always, Turkey will support
    Azerbaijan's position in the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict.

    "Unfortunately, today the international community is indifferent to
    Azerbaijan's problems related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," said
    Bagli.

    He added that the mass murder of Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh and
    other occupied territories is marked in Turkey.

    Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
    recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
    regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus
    neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing
    efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely
    fruitless so far.

    As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000
    Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost
    100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

    The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
    withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
    enforced to this day.

    http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/75521.html

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