“The possibility of recruiting Turkey as an intermediate of Karabakh conflict settlement is not real,” said French co-chairman of the OSCE MG Bernard Fasier. In answer to the journalist’s remark that Turkey wants to serve for the settlement of the conflict the co-chairman said, “It is impossible to recruit Turkey as an intermediate of this issue. It is the demand of consciousness.” The latter says that Azerbaijan and Turkey believe they are one nation but two states, thus Turkey is an interested party and cannot become an intermediate. According to Bernard Fasier, even though Armenia and Turkey have started a process of developing relations, the issue of Karabakh conflict is a separate and independent issue. He believes that both of these processes are in the same region and it is possible that any improvements in one of the processes may support the other one as well. By the way, Fasier said that in Turkey’s inner politics they often refer to the Armenian-Azeri and Armenian-Turkish processes and use for inner political purposes. He warned that such things might prevent the processes.
