Turkish Today’s Zaman, citing the announcements of Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman, Selcuk Unal, reports that Ankara is astonished in watching the accusations by the Armenian Diaspora.
According to Ünal, Turkey is not in the part of the process concerning Safarov’s extradition and they are “unfairly targeted” by Armenians over Azerbaijani officer pardoning.
The source recalls that the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan rose sharply last week, after Hungary repatriated convicted Azerbaijani military officer Ramil Safarov, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2004 axe murder of Armenian Lt. Gurgen Makarian while both were in Hungary on a NATO language-training course.
Note, Hungary believed Azerbaijani promises, that Safarov would serve his sentence in a local prison, but he received a presidential pardon hours after returning and later was promoted from lieutenant to major.