ARMENIAN POLITICAL ANALYST SPEAKS ON TURKEY’S REAL INTERESTS

Tert
Nov 16 2009
Armenia

Those who say that Nagorno-Karabakh has once again appeared in the
limelight don’t understand that Turkey has other interests, said
political analyst Igor Murdyan, commenting on the Armenia-Turkey
rapprochement.

"Turkey has understood that the failure or the successive outcome of
the establishment of relations with Armenia in no way correspond to
Turkey’s interests," he noted.

Muradyan also spoke about those issues which are important for
Turkey. "That is the opening of the border. The NATO member country
that is also reaching toward the European Union, that country’s 330
km border in which the region also has a claim."

The second issue the analyst considers leaving the "Armenian factor"
aside, which is, in Muradyan’s words, impossible, since no major
European country has an interest in forgetting this factor.

According to Muradyan, U.S. statements that Turkey is their colleague
is nothing but a diplomatic bluff. In the analyst’s words, the U.S. has
a clear issue: maintaining Turkey’s expansion into "the four corners
of the world."