Ankara Prevented Alyev's Plans to Unleash Military Actions Against Karabakh: Yeni Musavat

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was planning to unleash military actions against Nagorno Karabakh prior the signing of the Armenia-Turkey Protocols, which was staved off due to a last-minute effort by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT), writes local Turkish daily Hurriyet, citing an article in the local Azerbaijani daily Yeni Musafat.

"Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's plan to unleash military actions against Nagorno Karabakh was at the last minute prevented by MIT. The intervention by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization into Aliyev's plans took place about a year ago. Interestingly, it took place before the signing of the Protocols between Armenia Turkey in Switzerland. Turkey, by preventing Azerbaijan's plans, avoided failing the [normalization] process with Armenia and being discredited. The essence and the secret of the current tension between Baku and Ankara are related to that issue. The initiative by the ruling Justice and Development Party to normalize relations with Armenia would come to nought, should Azerbaijan have unleashed military actions that time," reads the article in Yeni Musavat.

Further the newspaper writes that today too Turkey will "stop" Azerbaijan, should it want to resolve the issue through military ways.

Citing its own sources in MIT, Hurriyet, in turn, writes that it will in no way make any comment on the publication which will make it impossible to find out the authenticity of what was said in the article.