What is Erdogan’s Message to Ilham Aliyev?

Special delegate of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Deputy Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu will arrive today in Baku with an alleged letter to hand over to the Azerbaijani President Ilhan Aliyev.

Earlier he passed another letter to the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan asking for a meeting with Erdogan in Washington in the framework of a World Nuclear Security Summit to take place next week.

Turkish local daily Radikal media has elaborated on some details of the meetings Sinirlioglu will hold while in Baku and also on Erdogan’s alleged letter to Aliyev.

According to the newspaper in Baku Sinirlioglu will meet with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. As for the letter, it reads in part: “We have not forgotten about you. In this process [Armenian-Turkish rapprochement] we do not ignore Baku at all. Baku’s concerns are our concerns. Azerbaijan, in fact, is aware of how much we want the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be resolved. But we do guarantee that the acceleration of the process does not mean at all that we will neglect your concerns.”

The letter also mentions that the normalization with Armenia will contribute to the establishment of peace, security and stability in the Caucasus.