Azerbaijan, Baku, April 8 / Trend , A.Huseyinbala/
Azerbaijanis in Germany protest the opening of Turkish-Armenian borders.
"This problem between the two brotherhood countries has laid out an unexpected fact before Azerbaijan," the Azerbaijani State Committee on Work with Diaspora said Trend .
Armenian-Turkish ties have been severed since 1993 due to Armenia's claims of an alleged genocide, and the country's occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijani lands.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul visited Yerevan on Sept. 6, 2008 upon the invitation of his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisyan to watch an Armenia-Turkey football match.
Efforts have been made to normalize ties between the two countries ever since
Representatives of Turkish society believe that the borders with Armenia will be opened.
"We became witnesses of the last Armenian ethnic cleaning in 1988, and we have failed to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict over 20 years. Nagorno-Karabakh and seven neighboring countries are still under occupation, about 1 million people were deprived of their lands and etc." the Azerbaijani Coordination Centre in Germany said.
All Diaspora organizations, which are represented in the centre, appealed to the Turkish state, politicians, mass media, science and art of this country, encouraging them to express their protest against the opening of the border with Armenia.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
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