Press Review - 02/17/2016

Official newspapers cover the trip of Ilham Aliyev to the Tovuz region and his participation in the opening of a number of socio-economic facilities.

Azadlig: Lawyers condemn the appeal of the judge Turgay Huseynov to the Bar Association, demanding to punish the lawyer Yalcin Imanov. The Bar itself is transformed into a machine of repression, and lawyers cannot defend not only citizens, but also themselves.

The former lawyer Gurban Mammadov believes that the pressure on Imanov is a continuation of the persecution of independent lawyers.

The author of the newspaper Novoye Vremya Rovshan Veliyev, commenting on the visit of the special envoy of NATO James Appathurai, says the Alliance is interested not in the salvation of Karabakh, but in Azerbaijan to give support to NATO on the Afghanistan issue.

Yeni Musavat: Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov tries to clarify the words attributed to him for support of Bashar al-Assad. Azimov says he did not talk about support for Assad, but merely said he saw the possible ground operation of coalition forces in Syria inappropriate.

The head of the party Musavat Arif Hajili called Azimov’s speech an insult of millions of Syrian refugees and Syrian Turks.

The leader of the Democratic Party Sardar Calaloglu called Azimov’s speech a manifestation of the government's inability to carry out foreign policy, ignorance of international law and the pro-Russian moods.

Bizim Yol: The expert Samir Aliyev believes the government has no strategy to deal with the crisis, and it has resorted to tactical steps. The government mistakenly fails to begin real reforms and hopes for a new rise in oil prices. -0-

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