TYRKEY
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that he proposed in a conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to jointly solve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. He said this on Wednesday during a speech in parliament, broadcast by the NTV channel.
“We had good talks with Putin. We discussed Karabakh in detail. We said: let's finish this all in the Caucasus. If you want, we will take steps together, we will talk with the parties. But now it is important for us to clearly decide whether we will settle the problem or not, ”Erdogan said. Only after a fundamental decision has been made, in his words, "concrete steps can be taken." The telephone conversation with Putin took place on Tuesday evening.
The Turkish leader believes that the Minsk Group "did not solve the problem, but was only playing for time." Erdogan suggested that Putin "hold a meeting with Pashinyan," and he himself is ready to talk to "brother Ilham" Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan. “Let's do well already, let the delegations meet. I am sure we will get results, ”Erdogan said, reminding that Ankara fully supports Baku in the conflict.
He also noted that in a conversation with Putin, he reminded the Russian side "of the red lines", which Turkey will not go over in the Karabakh issue, since then "his descendants will not forgive him." According to Erdogan, he informed the President of the Russian Federation about the allegedly fighting on the Armenian side of mercenaries from the armed groups of Kurds.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin press service reported that Putin and Erdogan, in particular, discussed the development of events in the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. The President of the Russian Federation informed the Turkish leader about his contacts with the leaderships of Azerbaijan and Armenia and the steps being taken to achieve an armistice as soon as possible and de-escalate the crisis. Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Azerbaijan Mevlut Cavusoglu and Jeyhun Bayramov held telephone talks, a source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry told TASS on Wednesday.
“During the talks, the ministers discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh issue,” the agency's source said. Azerbaijan and Armenia on October 25, with the mediation of the United States, agreed on a new humanitarian ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, the third since the aggravation of the conflict, which was to enter into force on October 26. The situation in the region escalated on September 27, when active hostilities began. Both sides report deaths and injuries, including among civilians, and mutual accusations of ceasefire violations.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is suing the Parisian weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, TRT reported on Wednesday. The Turkish presidential administration on Tuesday condemned the publication of a cartoon of Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan in the Parisian satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
“The anti-Muslim program of French President Macron is bearing fruit. Charlie Hebdo has just published a series of so-called cartoons full of despicable depictions of our alleged president. We condemn this abhorrent attempt to spread racism and hatred. The so-called cartoons are disgusting and devoid of any sense of human decency. This is clearly a product of the xenophobic, Islamophobic and intolerant cultural environment that the French leadership seems to want for their country, ”Fahrettin Altun, head of the Liaison Office of the Turkish Presidential Administration, wrote on his Twitter page.