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Secretary General of Turkeyâ€™s ruling party: Zengezur, which is Azerbaijanâ€™s historical land, a Turkic place, is in the territory of Armenia

03 December 2011 09:25 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov - APA. Turkey will not open borders with Armenia as long as the occupation of Karabakh continues, Secretary General of Turkeyâ€™s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), MP Haluk Ipek said at the conference in Erzurum on the theme â€œAzerbaijan and Turkey relations in the 20th year of independenceâ€, APA reports.

â€œAs Secretary General of Turkeyâ€™s ruling party I want to say the following. Armenia has violated Azerbaijanâ€™s territorial integrity and occupied 20 percent of its territories, the occupation continues. The organizations like UN and NATO see Armenia as an aggressor. Turkey closed the borders with Armenia because of the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by this country. The borders will not be opened as long as the occupation continues,â€ Haluk Ipek said.

AKP Secretary General also went into the details of his recent talk with the US Ambassador to Turkey.
â€œWe discussed with the US Ambassador to Turkey a number of issues, including the Armenian issue. I told him that all our archives are open. Our archives concerning the happenings in Erzurum are also open, while Armenia, France and other countries do not open their archives.Estimation of events happened in history is the work of historians, but the solution of current processes â€“ work of politicians. 16-17 years ago Armenians committed massacre in Khojali, about 680 people were murdered. Duty of politicians - to solve the current problemsâ€.

Ipek noted that Zengezur, which is Azerbaijanâ€™s historical land, a Turkic place, is in the territory of Armenia. This land, belonging to Yerevan khanate, is the territory of Azerbaijan: â€œCurrently, all historical works, monuments located in Armenia are destroyed by them. At the same time, historical Azerbaijani, Turkic monuments in Zangazur area tooâ€¦
Why? Because, Turkey is a window of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the west. The strategy formerly pursued by Stalin while trying to expand territory of Armenia over Zangazur till Iran, is still supported by some western statesâ€.

He also added that the declaration of independence of Turkic republics 20 years ago caused concern of Europeans. â€œEveryone is afraid of unification of the Turkic world. Therefore, the whole world does not respond to the Karabakh problem. 20% of territories of one state are under occupation, but the west remains silent, does not reactâ€.