SETTLEMENT ON KARABAKH NOT ENOUGH FOR ANKARA TO OPEN ITS BORDER WITH ARMENIA

Turkey, Azerbaijan's prime military and economic ally in the region, seems dubious that a breakthrough will result in the Karabakh peace talks to be held June 9 in St. Petersburg. The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be attending these talks.

According to a report in the June 1 edition of the Turkish Daily News:

The settlement may help normalization but this would not be sufficient in itself,” a well-placed Turkish diplomat told the Turkish Daily News yesterday. Turkey additionally insists on Armenia giving up claims of an alleged genocide, and dropping claims on Turkey's lands.

“If they agree on the settlement, then Turkey has to give an award by opening its border which was closed in 1993,” said Ömer Lüthem, retired ambassador and chairman of the institute for Armenian Research at ASAM.

OK..Now we get it. Turkey, a historic colonizing nation, which by the way in the fall of 1920 invaded the Republic of Armenia and was able by threat and military intimidation to annex Kars, Ardahan and the lands around Mt. Ararat, are now demanding that the people of Karabakh, who waged a war of liberation, now turn around and hand back those very same regions that are the only thing standing between them an a resurgent Azeri military machine.

It all makes sense...right???