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Turkish officials and numerous experts to discuss Turkish-Azerbaijani relations and Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations process in Washington

16 June 2010 05:05 (UTC +04:00)

In order to participate in the discussions the Chief Advisor to the Turkish Prime-Minister, as well as professors Metin Heper from Bilkent Universityâ€™s Department of Political Science and Ergun Ozbugun from the Faculty of Law will arrive to Washington DC.

A number of popular Turkish journalists from Ankara will attend the conference as well.

The discussions â€œTurkeyâ€™s New geopolitics: Challenges and Opportunitiesâ€ and discussions on Azerbaijan will be organized June 18th by the Washington DC based, headed by a former Congress member Robert Wexler thing-tank Middle East Institute, in particular, its Center for Turkish studies.

Turkish Ambassador in Washington DC Namik Tan and State Departmentâ€™s Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary Nancy McEldowney (who has worked for number of years in US Embassies in Baku and Ankara), also prominent analysts Steven A. Cook, Hasib Sabbagh and others will participate in the discussions.

The main topics for the discussions will be Turkeyâ€™s relations with Iran, Israel and Iraq, Turkeyâ€™s relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and Turkey in transition.

The discussion organizers at the Middle East Institution said in a conversation with APAâ€™s Washington DC correspondent that such discussions are particularly important nowadays as there are new tensions with Israel started, as well as new developments in the region of Eurasia happen, and there are breakthroughs in the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh.