Eduard Sharmazanov answers Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.

On March 14, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Bekir Bozdağ referred to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's statement that "Nagorno Karabakh has been and will continue to be Armenian".

The Turkish official said "Karabakh is a Turkish land, and that territory is illegally occupied", Armenian-Turkish relations will not be regulated and the borders will not open as long as Armenian forces have not been withdrawn from Karabakh.

In answer to Bekir Bozdağ's statement Deputy Speaker of Armenia's National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov said it is not only Artsakh that is Armenian and bears no relation to Turkish tribes, but also Turkey – the state, whose citizen the Turkish official appears.

"I remind that the present Turkey has been created on the basis of Greek and Armenian historical territories, annihilating native Greek and Armenian population. As for Karabakh's being "occupied", here it concerns the Azeris and Turks," said Sharmazanov. He noted that the Azeris must withdraw their forces from the occupied Shahumyan and Getsahen and Turkey – from the Northern Cyprus.