Senior government officials in Azerbaijan criticized Turkey's President Abdullah Gul on Thursday for congratulating his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian on winning a second term in office.
News of the congratulatory letter sent by Gul to Yerevan was reported by the official Turkish Anatolia news agency on Wednesday. It was not immediately confirmed by Sarkisian's office.
Officials in Baku expressed serious concern at the development, with President Ilham Aliyev's chief foreign policy aide demanding an official explanation from Ankara. "If there was such a congratulation, that is the position of the Turkish state and Abdullah Gul and it must be clarified," the official, Novruz Mammadov, was quoted by the Trend news agency as saying.
Armenian News
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