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Turkish MP Garo Paylan Challenges Turkish Foreign Minister’s Support for Azerbaijan

Garo Paylan (Photo provided by the office of Garo Paylan/Genel Kurul Fotoğrafı)

The following statements from Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), were directed to Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on July 20, 2020 following the Minister’s public condemnation of Armenia in the aftermath of deadly cross-border attacks from Azerbaijan.

Translated by Weekly intern Lillian Avedian

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Lillian Avedian

Lillian Avedian is the assistant editor of the Armenian Weekly. She reports on international women's rights, South Caucasus politics, and diasporic identity. Her writing has also been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Democracy in Exile, and Girls on Key Press. She holds master's degrees in journalism and Near Eastern studies from New York University.

One Comment

  1. Misterious the reason of the Azerbaijan attack.Did they want to see the preparation of their troops? Azerbaijan did never want to leave the question of Nagorno Karabakh.Again,the possibility to lower the crisis is lead to the diplomatic and military activity of the Russian Federation.Instead,they should evaluate a treaty of peace with Armenia,and renounce to their lost territory.Let’s suppose they win.Do they foresee the expulsion toward Armenia of a significant amount of, according to them,their citizens? Or they should prefer to maintain them in a permanent state of occupation? The treaty of peace,the recognition of the changes,is the only issue also for other crisis from the former Soviet Union,Donbass and Transdnerst,but I should add also Ceceny.All questions that is not suggestable to maintain hots for the next hundreds years.

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