ARIEL COHEN: "AZERBAIJAN MAY ALSO SUFFER FROM THE GEOPOLITICAL REORIENTATION OF TURKEY ON RUSSIA AND EURASIA AND ANKARA’S DISTANCING FROM THE UNITED STATES"

Today.Az
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Feb 12 2009
Azerbaijan

The normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia is a
slow process but there is a good will of both parties, said Ariel
Cohen, famous US specialist on Eurasia, expert in the sphere of
external policy, security and international relations, leader of the
Russia-Eurasian direction at "The Heritage Foundation".

"The matter is how Turks will settle the issue of the historical
facts of 1915-1917 and what should Turkey do for the history to stop
modernization in their relations. When the dead will stop seizing the
alive? As Turkey today is passing the stage of political Islamization
and in the result of this very complex geopolitical reorientation it
is distancing from the West. Azerbaijan can also suffer from this".

According to Cowen, improvement of relations between Turkey and Armenia
should be viewed in the context of geopolitical reorientation of Turkey
top Russia and Eurasia and Turkey’s distancing from the United States.

"Therefore, Azerbaijan should approach the processes between Ankara
and Yerevan carefully", concluded he.