2+2=5 or 6:How? Explains Turkish FM Spokesperson Burak Ozugergin

In the near future Turkey has not planned anything pertaining Armenia, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Burak Ozugergin said, referring to a draft bill recently adopted on the Israeli Knesset agenda recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

"As it was in the past we hope that the bill will not yield any fruit this time either. There has been no change in our approach towards the parliaments that condemn the history. It would be far better if historians dealt with history," said Ozugergin.

Speaking about recent publications in the mass media about the Karabakh conflict Ozugergin said: "The impression is that by signing
the Protocols and by starting the normalization process we can no longer be interested in the Karabakh conflict."

"This logic cannot be perceived: we signed the Protocols and for that reason we stop being interested in the region, focusing all our attention on normalizing relations with Armenia. This is a strange logic. By normalizing the relations with Armenia we should not have losses in Karabakh and vice versa. In mathematics 2+2 always equals to 4. But in international relations that sum may be equal to 5 or 6. Peace in the Caucasus is something like that. The results to be achieved will be far bigger, should relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan normalize and should we normalize relations with Armenia too. That is what we want to ensure," said Ozugergin.