Sharmazanov: Turkey’s attempt to attach religious tint to Nagorno Karabakh conflict is immoral
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YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS. Since the very beginning of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict Turkey has openly assisted and supported Azerbaijan. Turkey is the only country in the region which has directly justified on the highest level all atrocities of Azerbaijan. This was stated by Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov on April 13 during a press conference. “It has even gotten to a point where Turkey tries to attach a religious character to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict via its Foreign Minister. This is immoral and unacceptable. If we attach a religious character to this conflict, it may be the beginning of a new disaster in the region. European, Russian and American civilizations have to be attentive and clearly put pressure, “Armenpress” reports Sharmazanov saying.
He stressed that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called upon the Muslim countries to unite over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. “When Aliyev was making religious assessments, protesting Europeans and Minsk group, as if they are pro-Armenian, because Armenians are Christians and they are Muslim, those same Europeans and the Minsk Group were ignoring our calls. And we were saying that it is dangerous that Azerbaijan is attaching a religious character to this conflict. I think that we have to realize the seriousness of this issue”, Sharmazanov said.
He said that those Muslim countries which had and continue having friendly relations with Armenia will not be dragged into Turkish provocations. “This is not a religious war, not a religious conflict. The Armenian people have always had friendly relations with the Arab world, Iran and a number of Muslim countries. This is exclusively a Turkish, Pan-Turkish factor and this Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem should not be identified as Muslim.