Artak Shakaryan: Turkey frustrating Azerbaijan's plans

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish-Azerbaijani controversy on normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations is often taken for a political game aiming to press on Armenia and compel it to compromise but, actually, it's not so, according to an Armenian expert.



"Turkey is not a pro-Azerbaijani country any longer. Earlier, Islamists were trying to gain power with arms. Now they are doing it with economic tools," Artak Shakaryan told a news conference on Saturday.



"Turkey is no longer willing to defend Azerbaijan's interests as it did before. These two countries are not an unsplittable unity. The closed Armenian-Turkish border was a fundamental principle for Azerbaijan in the Karabakh issue. Normalizing relations with Armenia, Turkey breaks the current state of affairs," he said.