RUSSIAN EXPERT: IT IS HIGH TIME FOR TURKEY TO STOP BEING HOSTAGE OF AZERBAIJANI POLICY REGARDING ARMENIA
ArmInfo
2008-09-11 18:03:00
ArmInfo. It is high time for Turkey to stop being hostage of
Azerbaijani policy regarding Armenia, Russian political expert Sergey
Markedonov told ArmInfo correspondent.
‘Undoubtedly, we can say Turkey being quite a strong country
cannot take into consideration the view of its "younger brother"
Azerbaijan. The fact that Turkey’s foreign policy is conditioned by
the view of Baku causes irritation in the Turkish establishment’,
– he said. At the same time he said this is just one side of the
case as Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, which passed the Karabakh
war, is searching for additional security guarantees for Armenia and
cannot ignore the Turkish factor. ‘In this context Armenian president
will take all the efforts to take the republic out of isolation at
least from the Turkish side. Stemming from it, we should observe
the Armenian-Turkish relations only as unity of all these facts and
Abdullah Gul’s visit to Yerevan is just one of the links in the line
of the Armenian-Turkish relations’, – Markedonov concluded.