MURADYAN: TURKEY DOESN’T WANT TO PERFORM U.S. SCENARIO

Aysor
Nov 16 2009
Armenia

Turkey will postpone the ratification for Armenian-Turkish protocols
as long as possible to never perform the U.S. scenario, says at
press-conference analyst Igor Muradyan.

According to Igor Muradyan, it is impossible to say with certainty that
Washington is able to guarantee to the end the process of normalisation
between Armenia and Turkey, especially when neither Armenia nor Ankara
themselves are ready to continue the process. "The continuation of the
process without any powerful support is impossible," he said adding
that Turkey is quite skeptical about the project while Armenia s
more loyal.

"The today’s Turkish government cannot take into account the interests
of all sectors of society. It cannot now ignore people’s unwillingness
and adopt the processes which are not supported by people."

Even White House can’t continue the initiative since it has more
important agenda – to save positions in Central Asia, and in
particular, in Afghanistan." Most expectations of western society
are linked with this region as there is a danger of Vietnam repeat.

Actually, even Iraq is forgotten," said the analyst pointing that
Washington is afraid of possible Turkey’s role in region which will
lead to status-quo-related changes. In Muradyan’s opinion, Turkey has
now two chief objectives: to solve the matter of Armenia-Turkey border
and dispose of Armenian factor which 150 years long influences Turkey’s
foreign policy. Ankara makes concessions just for self-solving of
"Armenian problem". It realizes that western superpowers do not seek
for normalisation of relations between Armenia and Turkey but seek
for new resources to pressure Turkey as it moves to seed as Middle
Eastern leader. Even Turkey’s years-long wished UE membership is
supported neither by European states, nor by Washington.

"In this case, the U.S. has a clear objective to hold back Turkey’s
right and left expansion," said Igor Muradyan reminding that a year
ago when war had broken between Georgia and Osetia, some tensions
appeared between Ankara and Washington on discussed item of U.S. Air
Force presence on Black Sea.

"Armenian-Turkish protocols’ ratification and opening of the border
will make Turkey play the definite game," said the analyst adding
that Ankara Turkey does not want to perform U.S. scenario and this
actually leads to elongate of Armenian-Turkish relations.

"United States plays a game that doesn’t work. Washington does not
understand that this is not the Turkey of 1990s," said Muradyan and
pointed that Ankara realizes "it’s a game" and seeks for distance
receding even from NATO while keeping the membership. This situation
allows Turkey strengthening the partnership with other geopolitical
center, which is Russia, not excluding even the creation of alliances
with Moscow. What about Russia itself, the analyst said Caucasus and
the whole Middle East region is already an historical key factor of
its external moves.

"Russia has nearly the same scenario that U.S. has," said Igor Muradyan
and added that Moscow hopes to get its dividends from failure of the
U.S. project of normalisation of Armenian-Turkish relations.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress