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Turkey: US, Turkey ties continue on normal course
“Turkey’s US ambassador [Namık Tan] has already made a statement and said there was a misunderstanding,” Davutoğlu said during his visit to the border province of Iğdır on Wednesday, while campaigning for the constitutional reform package referendum slated for Sept. 12.
While speaking to reporters in Washington on Monday, Tan said claims suggesting the imposition of an “arms embargo” by the US against Turkey were “groundless.”
Davutoğlu also said the efforts of Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu were continuing in Congress regarding Turkey’s defense requirements.
Speaking about peace and stability in the Caucasus, Davutoğlu said had he talked on the phone with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Elmar Mammadyarov, and Nakhchivan Parliament Speaker Vasif Talıbov, and they all expressed a desire for peace in the region.
The foreign minister later on Wednesday passed through the Dilucu border gate, connecting Turkey and Azerbaijan along an 11 kilometer border, to Nakhchivan to have talks with Nakhchivan officials. Davutoğlu told reporters that Nakhchivan shares the same fate as Turkey and that Turkey will always stand by the autonomous republic.
After returning from Nakhchivan to Iğdır, Davutoğlu told reporters that Iğdır is a strategic province in that it sits at the nexus of four countries (Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey). “Once peace and stability is maintained in the Caucasus, the Iğdır gate will be the most important door in Asia,” Davutoğlu said.
Asked about Tuesday’s deadly skirmish between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Davutoğlu said Turkey was doing its best to avert a similar incident occurring. “We are closely following the developments and we will have a meeting with Azerbaijan. For a lasting peace in the Caucasus, the restitution of occupied Azerbaijani territories and the solution of the Karabakh conflict are necessary,” Davutoğlu stated.
Azerbaijan said three Armenian and two Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in an exchange of gunfire along the northern Nagorno-Karabakh frontline on Tuesday in the latest skirmish between the two warring sides.
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