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Oktay Vural: â€œTurkish national interests can not be realized at the expense of blow on Azerbaijanâ€™s interestsâ€

21 October 2009 15:32 (UTC +04:00)

Ankara â€“ APA. â€œWho told us about the opening of Turkish-Armenian borders, Turkish prime minister or foreign minister? No, American president Barack Obama told us about that on April 6 in his address to the Turkish parliament. Why we should know it not from our president, but from the president of foreign country? How you can explain it?â€ said leader of MHP faction at the parliament Oktay Vural during the submission of the Turkish-Armenian protocols to the parliament by foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu. He said Turkeyâ€™s foreign policy toward Armenia collapsed. â€œWhat is difference between the document you signed with Armenia on April 2 and this one? Why you did not make it public? The foreign minister says the normalization of relations with Armenia is within the Turkeyâ€™s national interests. Turkish national interests can not be realized at the expense of blow on Azerbaijanâ€™s interestsâ€.

Oktay Vural said the Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers made statements contradictory to each other. â€œAKP government said the borders could be opened after the long process. Armenian foreign minister said in a press conference in Yerevan that they reached agreement on the opening of borders with Turkey. Whom we have to believe? Everyone should understand that no any thought not expressing the nationâ€™s will can be accepted. The protocols must be with the Turkish national interests and decisions earlier passed by the parliament. Let the foreign minister to say what article of the protocol contains the national interestsâ€.
Oktay Vural mentioned that MHP was always shown as a side impeding the normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations.
â€œI ask the states that witnessed the signing of the protocols: Who impedes this process? Hasnâ€™t Armenian state declared a part of Turkeyâ€™s lands as western Armenia? Isnâ€™t there an emblem of Agridag on the flag hung out on the plane that landed in Bursa? Who occupied Azerbaijani territories Turkey, or Armenia? Didnâ€™t Armenia commit crime against mankind in Khojaly and displace one million people? Doesnâ€™t the policy pursued under the pretext of normalizing the relations with the country that committed these crimes mean to share these crimes? Will our nation allow it? Show me a country that will shake hands with the country having territorial claims against your state and occupying the lands of your neighbor. Our president, who said â€œwe are writing a historyâ€, did it in Bursa,â€ he said.
Oktay Vural mentioned the position of the then Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul (incumbent president) on the relations with Armenia in 2005.
â€œThe then Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said that Armenia violated the norms of the international law, occupied the territories of the neighboring state and no diplomatic relations could be established with that country. What has changed, Mr. President?â€ he said.
Oktay Vural said that MHP will protest against the establishment of the diplomatic relations with Armenia unless it withdraws its troops from Azerbaijani territories and gives up its territorial claims against Turkey.