“Let’s not use campaigns against each other that resemble the Cold War era, with claims like “Turkey supports Daesh”, which you [Russia] did not even mention a fortnight ago”, the Turkish prime minister said. In this context, as the Prime Minister who will be in power in Turkey for the next four years, I want to say that we’ll be always nearby with Azerbaijan.
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Touching upon the importance of constructing the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, Turkey’s PM noted that this railway that will link Europe with Asia is also significant for Turkey. “Each inch of Azerbaijan’s land is dear, and those lands should be liberated”, he noted.
The start of construction was scheduled for June but has been delayed as Moscow and Ankara failed to reach an intergovernmental agreement.
Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council’s four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
According to President Putin, the Su-24 plane incident in is “a stab in Russia’s back” delivered by terrorist accomplices. He steered for the 1st time, nevertheless, in that the aircraft was brought down ’cause Turkey couldn’t “morally” permit the aircraft to trespass on Turkish territory before bombing areas in Syria where ethnic Turkish populations live.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expresses optimism that tensions with Russia will die down after meeting his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in the first high-level meeting between the two nations since Turkey shot down a Russian jet.
Turkey and Russian Federation engaged in some $30 billion worth of trade in 2014.
Aliyev said that Turkey will get all the gas Azerbaijan can give and promised to invest $20 billion in the Russian-boycotted Turkish economy.
“We expressed our sadness and expressed our condolences for the Russian pilot who lost his life”, he added.
Davutoglu maintained that “honorable people of Turkey” expect respect from “honorable people of Russia”. “The plane was shot over Turkey’s territory”.
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The recent downing of Russian warplane in Turkey’s airspace, the intervention of Russia in Syrian crisis and the allegations faced by Turkey that it’s buying oil from ISIS came to be known as the main reasons for this effect.
