“Gul’s congratulation generates discontent of historians”, This is what Azerbayjan’s Azadliq Newspaper wrote on 24 of February.
The newspaper wrote: “Views expressed in the letter are inappropriate”.

full report from BBC Monitoring:

Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s congratulatory letter to
Armenian president-elect said: “I hope your new position
will permit the creation of the necessary environment for
normalizing relations between the Turkish and Armenian
peoples, who have proven over centuries they can live
together in peace and concord. I sincerely wish that our
concerted efforts will contribute to regional peace and
prosperity and create an atmosphere based on stability,
mutual confidence and cooperation. Taking advantage of the
opportunity, I want to convey my best wishes for your health
and happiness as well as for the peace and welfare of the
Armenian people.”

We asked the deputy chairman of the PFAP (People’s Front of
Azerbaijan Party), Ibrahim Valiyev, to comment on Abdullah
Gul’s letter. He said that he did not approve of Abdullah
Gul’s views full of respect: “The Turkish president’s view
about the peaceful coexistence of Turks and Armenians can be
justified because actually during the Ottoman Empire,
Armenians were highly respected as a loyal nation. Almost
all conditions were created for Armenians. At the same time,
Armenians were resettled to the Caucasus as well as
Azerbaijan with the help of Russia where they were also
created all conditions there.

“However, as time passed, Armenians’ treacherous intentions
surfaced and they have never made a secret of their
intention to seize Turkish lands. Armenians have always
stabbed Turkey in the back in its difficult days. Their
attitudes towards Turks emerged in difficult days of the
fraternal country. Abdullah Gul should not have lost sight
of historic facts. The Turkish president did not take into
consideration that it is impossible to peacefully coexist
with Armenians. Apparently, he invited Armenians to
rapprochement at the international level.”

The deputy chairman of the Citizen and Development Party,
Aflatun Quliyev, does not consider this congratulatory
letter relevant given the systematic and worldwide
anti-Turkish propaganda of Armenians: “True, I would not
like to comment on views of the Turkish president.
Nevertheless, it would be possible to wait for the final
results of the election. From this point of view, the letter
made to surprise. As for the views sounded in Gul’s
congratulatory letter, people even with insufficient
knowledge of the history are suspicious of those opinions.
As a citizen, my assessment of the congratulatory letter is
that it was a step made in haste in a time when Armenians
are engaged in worldwide activities to have the so-called
Armenian genocide recognized by various states. I consider
that the views expressed in the letter were irrelevant.”