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The Association of Diplomacy Correspondents (DMD) has asked the Foreign Ministry for an explanation of a recent statement calling a visit by Turkish journalists to the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region “illegal.”

A crew of the private NTV station visited Nagorno-Karabakh earlier this month, drawing a formal protest from Azerbaijan, which fought a war over the now-breakaway region with Armenia in the early 1990s. The most aggravating factor for the Azerbaijani government was the reporters’ application for special permission from the Foreign Ministry of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, according to the Azerbaijani media. In a statement released over the weekend, Burak Ozugergin, spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, said the journalists’ visit to Nagorno-Karabakh was “against Turkey’s policies” and “by no means legal.”

“We remind the Foreign Ministry of the fact that while assuming their professions, journalists don’t have to obey official policies, but they do assume their professions in line with professional principles which are set only according to universal norms,” DMD said in a statement.

AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTRY CANCELED ACCREDITATION OF NTV TELEVISION CHANNEL JOURNALISTS

“Today reporter of Turkey's NTV TV channel in Azerbaijan Ramin Abdullayev was invited to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry and was notified that accreditation of the NTV TV channel journalists to Azerbaijan has been canceled,“Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said.

“It was Azerbaijan's response to the NTV journalists who illegally tripped to the occupied Azerbaijani territories receiving accreditation in the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,” the fact which dissapointed Azerbaijan,” he said.

Two Turkish journalists from Milliyet newspaper and private NTV TV channel tripped to the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on Sept. 9.