"The Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh Is a Challenge to the Tegion’s Stability"

Tuesday, 16 November 2010 19:32

Over 93% of the Turkish population doesn’t consider the events of 1915 as genocide of Armenians, said Soner Cagaptay, Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, during a conference on US-Turkish relations in Washington DC, APA’s US correspondent reports.

He said that the thought and the image of Turkey that Armenians want to spread to the world are wrong. According to him, the 1915 events are widely discussed in Turkey, as this is a very much changed society nowadays and everything is discussed there – “there are no taboos”.

Cagaptay said there is a great debate on the Armenian issue in Turkey. In his turn Michael Werz, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, said that the tensions in the region are quite fierce already, and stabilizing the Turkish-Armenian situation would help a lot. The experts said that Turkey is an important peacekeeper in the region and a great partner for the US.

They also pointed out that the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is a challenge to the region’s stability. In that regards, the conflict should be solved as soon as possible, and the US as well as other OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs should help.

APA