Turkish PM Erdogan makes a condition to White House in terms of resolution of Turkish-Armenian issue

“We have announced to the U.S. representatives since the beginning that if you want to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, you should also resolve the Turkish-Armenian issue. Otherwise, you will fail to resolve it,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his interview with Azerbaijan’s local ANS TV channel.

Erdogan said the conflict will be resolved if the members of OSCE Minsk Group, U.S., France and Russia make more efforts to resolve it.

He noted that Karabakh issue will also be discussed at a meeting with Obama.

“This is because the Turkish-Armenian issue and the Nagorno-Karabakh problem are interrelated. I told it to  Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, to which they replied: "We will accelerate this question.”

“If Mr. Obama and Medvedev show will and the Sargsyan-Aliyev negotiations mark progress, I believe there will be a positive result. If the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is settled, the Turkish-Armenian problem will also be finally resolved,” Erdogan said.

/ANS PRESS/