Azerbaijani official backs Turkish PM's Armenian comments

Thu 18 March 2010 12:26 GMT | 17:26 Local Time

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Ali Hasanov

The Turkish government and PM spoke in line with their country's interests and were right to do so, an Azerbaijan presidential official has said.

Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned about the possible deportation of 100,000 illegal migrants from Armenia in an interview with the BBC.

The more Turkey helps Armenia, the wider the anti-Turkish policy of Armenians becomes, Ali Hasanov, head of the public policy department of Azerbaijan’s presidential administration, told reporters on Wednesday.

He thinks that in this anti-Turkish campaign Armenia will lose as much as Turkey.

Erdogan made these remarks in response to a question about Ankara's reaction to the adoption of resolutions recognizing the killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as 'genocide' in the parliaments of a number of countries.

Turkey recalled its ambassadors from Washington and Stockholm after the adoption of resolutions in the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and in the Swedish parliament.

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