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<text>
<title>
Turkish Commentary On Nagorno-Karabakh Situation
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<hdr>
Foreign Broadcast Information Service, December 18, 1991
Turkey: Commentary on Nagorno-Karabakh Situation
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<p>[Commentary by M. Necati Ozfatura under "Foreign Policy"
column: "The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict". Istanbul TURKIYE in
Turkish 13 Dec 91 p 5]
</p>
<p> [Excerpts] Nagorno-Karabakh's population was 94 percent
Turkish before the Red Army invaded and occupied Azerbaijan. As
part of its long-term Caucasus policy, the communist regime
massacred and forcibly deported the Turks inhabiting these
lands, settling Armenians who had come from various countries
and regions in their place. Not satisfied with this, the regime
thrust a dagger into the heart of Azerbaijan in the form of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. This festering wound grew
into a cancer by 1988. [passage omitted]
</p>
<p> The present status quo is transitory. Armenians are greatly
mistaken if they think 3.4 million Armenians could defeat the
Turkish world, which is 50 times their size. Besides, the
Christian West, Russia, and the European Community--in whom
Armenians have put all their trust--are eking out their final
years in the Caucasus. The 21st century will be a Turkish and
Islamic one. The Armenians, who are being instigated by the
West and pushed into a major calamity in pursuing a greater
Armenia, are digging their own graves. If they had not betrayed
the Ottomans in the past, there now would be 4 million Armenians
in Anatolia. Today they only number some 40,000. If they resort
to schemes, Armenians inevitably would suffer the same fate in
the Caucasus (including Armenia) in the first quarter of the
21st century. [passage omitted]
</p>
<p> Conditions are not ripe at present for a war between
Azerbaijan and Armenia, but as soon as possible Turkey must
help train and equip the Azerbaijani national army with
powerful weapons. Every effort should be made for detente until
the Azerbaijani army is formed and gains strength. A war in
Caucasus is inevitable. The West not only is Armenia's protector
and the agitator for a greater Armenia but also aims at taking
control of the Caucasus as it did the Persian Gulf. In addition,
the Caucasus, Central Asia, and east and southeast Anatolia are
the first targets of Iranian imperialism. Iran provides the
greatest help to Armenia.
</p>
<p> Germany sees Turkey as its main rival in the Balkans and the
Caucasus. After the German unification, the "policy of opening
to the East" has been given a new impetus. The Russian
Federation is plotting to annex the Caucasus from the Soviet
Union. The imperialist forces are trying to Lebanonize the
Balkans and the Caucasus. Just as the conflict between the Serbs
and Croats might drag that region into a full-fledged war, a
conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia is fraught with the
danger of engulfing the entire Caucasus in an all-out war.
</p>
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