ANKARA AND YEREVAN ECONOMIC INTERESTS CAN SHOVE BACK KARABAKH PROBLEM
PanArmenian News
Dec 7 2004
07.12.2004 15:10
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The analytical section of Gazetasng.ru draws
attention to the coincidence of the Brussels making a decision to
accelerate the beginning of the talks on accession of Turkey to
the European Union and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit
to Ankara. As reported by Gazetasng.ru, some Turkish media again
started speaking about a possible settlement of the Armenian-Azeri
relations, as well as establishment of Turkish-Armenian diplomatic
relations. In the opinion of the Internet edition, “there are implicit
signs that Ankara does not intend to publicly and unambiguously
support Azerbaijan in the Karabakh issue.” In the opinion of the
article author, Turkey is not against Armenia having the foreign
trade transit via the railway from Gumri to Ankara, Istanbul and to
the Balkans either. “There are reasons for supposing that long-term
economic interests of Moscow, Ankara and Yerevan will allow to shove
back the Nagorno Karabakh problem.” As noted by the Turkish media,
Ankara perceives that Turkey’s obstinacy and e.g. a direct or indirect
participation in the events in the North Caucasus can entail Russia
(and even Armenia) supporting the Kurdish rebels, who operate exactly
in the Turkish sector of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan trunk. As supposed by
Kerimoghlu Turkish historian, “Turkey has its interests in the region,
however she does not wish to quarrel with Russia and its allies in the
same region. Turkey bewares that while she is sorting out relationships
with Moscow and Yerevan, Americans will establish their hegemony in
the Transcaucasia and the Caspian (as they have done in the North of
Iraq that Turkey has aspired for a long time). It should be reminded
that the Azeri-Turkish relations are not always unclouded, and the
anti-Turkish moods are not that rare among the Russian-language Azeri
intelligence and other strata of the society.