A prominent Turkish politician on Tuesday urged Turkic nations to raise their voice in support of Azerbaijan.
“AZERBAIJAN’S SOVEREIGNTY RIGHTS WERE ASSASSINATED”
“Another issue which troubles and upsets us is the silence, unresponsiveness and inaction from Turkic nations over the Upper Karabakh issue,” Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), told his party’s parliamentary group.
“Is this silence and inaction convenient for any Turk?” asked Bahçeli.
Reminding the Turkic nations — including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan — Azerbaijan was the aggrieved party over the Upper Karabakh issue, the MHP leader said: “Azerbaijan is the country whose territorial integrity and sovereignty rights were assassinated.”
The OSCE Minsk Group — co-chaired by France, Russia and the US — was formed in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, but to no avail.
Turkey has supported Baku’s right to self-defense, and demanded a withdrawal of the occupying forces.