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Politicians reproach Turkish government for insult against Azerbaijani flag

15 October 2009 16:51 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Elnur Mammadli â€“ APA. â€œAzerbaijan is a member of the United Nations and all countries, including Turkey, should respect its flag. No one can ban this flag. Turkey showed shameful attitude to the Azerbaijani flag like the PKK flagâ€, said chairman of Azerbaijan Democratic Party Sardar Jalaloglu, expressing opinion about the ban on Azerbaijani flag in Bursa during the football match between Turkey and Armenia. Jalaloglu said there were episodes of insult against the Azerbaijani flag. â€œIt is domestic affair of Turkey to be friend of Armenia. But if this friendship is accompanied by the enmity against Azerbaijan, it creates serious concern. Our party is not against the opening of borders, but if the opening of borders leads to cutting of Azerbaijani-Turkish relations, it will be betrayal of Turkic unityâ€.

Jalaloglu said the Turkish government wanted to be more Catholic than Pope with the insulting the Azerbaijani flag. â€œThe Turkish government did it because it intended to look more sincere to his friends abroad. We would like to know why the rapprochement of Turkey and Armenia should be at the expense of relations with Azerbaijan.â€

Political analyst Mubariz Ahmadoglu said there was Islamist government in Turkey and it didnâ€™t understand the notion of nation. â€œThey observed the sectarianism in their religious faith. They are not Muslims and Turks. They announced that FIFA banned it. Indeed it was hate of those people to own statehood and own nation. They are in power for several years and Turkish society got used to their actionsâ€. Ahmadoglu said some people in the Turkish government thought that Armenians established, developed Ottoman Empire and independent Turkish state. â€œThere are some people in the Turkish government that see Armenians as holy people. Armenia sees Azerbaijan as its enemy and those people in Turkey also think so. They try to take revenge on us for Armeniansâ€.

Political analyst Vafa Guluizadeh said Turkey did not deal Ã¼ith Azerbaijan. He does not belive Turkeyâ€™s statements that FIFA made such decision. According to the political analyst, it is the decision of Turkey: â€œTheye were afreaid of occurance of possible unpleasant things at the stadium if Azerbaijani fans participated there. Because, Turkey and Armenia are negotiationg to open the borders and Azerbaijan objects itâ€. Vafa Guluizadeh noted that Turkey must clarify the disrespect to Azerbaijanâ€™s flag in Turkey-Armenia match in Bursa on October 14.

Chairman of Azerbaijan Social Democratic Party (ASDP) Araz Alizadeh told APA that taking such steps Turkey hopes for its admission into European Union: European countries demand it from Turkey and official Ankara carries out it.