AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA RELATIONS (original) (raw)

0, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS OCCURRED IN TURKEY BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 1980-2000

In 1991, along with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan-Turkey relations have entered a new era. This new situation has given some opportunities and possibilities to Turkey in one hand; but on the other hand has forced Turkey to set new policies on the ground of uncertainty and chaos. Forced to adapt to this new era Turkey, has seen is not ready to this new era by living which was foreseen by the founding leader at the end of the 1930s. Besides being the first country to recognize Azerbaijan, Turkey, supported the consolidation of Azerbaijan’s independence and aimed at ensuring territorial integrity and opening up to the outside world. Although the relations between the two countries have been influenced by foreign factors from time to time, a common attitude has been developed for the protection of peace and stability especially in the region. Serious collaborations have been made in economic, strategic and military fields besides diplomatic-political relations. Especially the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline play an importantant role to being reach the Caspian oil to the outside world. This aims to make Azerbaijan become a significant player in free world. In this way energy resources easily and safely can be transported to outer world and in the context of transport Azerbaijan-Turkey relations are hovering above a rising graph. Azerbaijan’s integration into the international arena, in the context of maintaining regional security, political, economic, scientific and cultural aspects of the multifaceted cooperation with Turkey to development is given great importance. Although Azerbaijan proves its legitimacy on Karabakh and refugee issue, both the OSCE and the United Nations have not demonstrated the power and will to remove Armenia from the Azerbaijani territory it occupies. While some researchers consider the UN Security Council’s decisions as an “ineffective decision series”24, some researchers Armenian questioning of what the impact of these decisions in the face of the attacks suggests that it should . While Armenia is continuing its unfair occupation movement with the support it received from the Russian Federation; Azerbaijan and its natural ally Turkey’s main aims have to be to set a proper transportation infrastructure to carry natural resources in the hands of Azerbaijan to the markets, to support Azerbaijan to be a respected member of the international community, to establish a disiplined, well trained, well equipt army to protect its strengthed economic gains. The works to be carried out with the understanding of “One Nation Two States” will liberate the occupied lands, which are the desired result, and 1 million refugees can go back their main lands.