CAUCASUS PLATFORM IS TURKEY’S ATTEMPT TO ASSERT ITSELF AS REGIONAL POWER

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.11.2008 14:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Caucasus stability and cooperation platform
is Turkey’s attempt to assert itself as a regional power, Konstantin
Zatulin, State Duma member, director of the institute of CIS studies,
told a news conference today.

"Turkey wants to give its western partners to understand that regional
problems should be resolved by regional powers. Ankara did not conceal
its negative attitude to U.S. navy presence in the Black Sea. Turkey
doesn’t want to be West’s outpost, as it was during the cold war,"
he said, adding that any regional initiative without Iran is doomed
to failure.