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Serdar Denktash: â€œNagorno Karabakh is occupied Azerbaijani territoriesâ€

21 January 2011 09:01 (UTC +04:00)

Lefkosha. Victoria Dementieva â€“ APA. â€œThe Nagorno Karabakh and Cyprus conflicts are completely different from each otherâ€, president of the Democratic Party of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus Serdar Denktash told journalists, APA reports. He said that Nagorno Karabakh is occupied Azerbaijani territories and the Azerbaijani population of the territory had been banished from the region: â€œCyprus is common territory of Greeks and Turks. The Greek side attempted to occupy the entire territory of Cyprus in 1974, but the Turkish side did not reconcile with it and had to interfere. After the agreement signed in 1976, the Turkish Cypriots living in the south migrated to the north, and the Greeks living in the north migrated to the south. We had not occupied the northern territories. The only occupied thing in this island is the rights of the Turksâ€.

According to Denktash, it is not right to compare Nagorno Karabakh and Cyprus conflicts: â€œThe only common reason is that both Azerbaijan and Turkey want to deliver its positions to world communityâ€.