PRELAPSARIAN NAIVETY OR ARMENIAN REVENGE
By Oksana Musaelyan
arminfo
2010-02-12 12:41:00
"Ah, these babblings are but flung into empty air. I shall live and
die far away from you-I have lost you for ever! "
"Julie or The New Heloise by Jean Jacques Rousseau.
The air route selected for the visit to Great Britain from Yerevan
was via the territory of Turkey, as befits. And President of Armenia
Serzh Sargsyan did not lose the opportunity to remind the Turkish
leadership that "the moment is historic indeed and it is not just us
but the entire world realizes that."
The message contained a call to Ankara to be reasonable, demonstrate
"firmness" and normalize the relations between the two counties without
further delays. The reasoning of the "message" was quite pathetic: "I
would like to send my regards to you and to the people of neighboring
Turkey while traveling through the Turkish airspace. Our initiative to
normalize Armenian-Turkish relations is in the epicenter of attention
of the international community."
The original messaging initiated en passant has not gone unnoticed.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu immediately responded to
the news out of a clear sky and said not without sarcasm that the
message was routine.
"The letter sent by Armenian President Serzh Sargsian to his Turkish
counterpart Abdullah Gul was a routine message sent by leaders while
flying over Turkish territory. Mr Sargsyan expressed his positive
wishes in his message," Ahmet Davutoglu said.
However, the background of such pathetics has strong reasons where
every display of "kindness" by the president of Armenia to the neighbor
Turkey is nothing but a link to political revenge.
We have learned Ankara’s rules of the game in the past. Pressed
by the feeling of historical injustice and inspired with dignity,
Yerevan under Robert Kocharyan provided Ankara with the right to make
the first step. Under pressure of the international community and to
get rid of it Turkey used it at its own convenience.
Erdogan-Kocharyan correspondence ended 1:0 in favor of Turkey, for
the world community did not trust in Kocharyan’s words saying that
Erdogan received Yerevan’s response.
The response proved indigestible and was not taken into account.
Delicacy of the two parties’ approaches to the painful topic of the
Armenian Genocide created difficulties and the international players
preferred narrowing their unscrupulousness in the delicate issue
down to Yerevan’s stickiness and trusting in the more "authoritative"
Ankara.
Kocharyan, who became known as a man of strong principles over
long years of his presidency, had no opportunity to switch up the
situation. It is obvious that in case of desire he would be suspected
in cunning.
Instead, Kocharyan’s appointee Sargsyan was underestimated by Turks
from the very beginning. Now they are paying up for their cynicism.
Sargsyan’s granite policy mixed with revenge is bringing fruits.
Scarcely had Ankara processed the results of "soccer diplomacy"
on the Earth when it got a new problem like a bolt from the blue.
Ankara seems to be unable to cope with the emotional unrestraint of the
Armenian president. Sargsyan took the ball from the faltering neighbor
and is aiming it at the gate. The incompliant neighbor Turkey does
not hinder Sargsyan, whose partly monolog was attentively followed
by the world community, always "reasonable" and therefore having some
difficulties with understanding the truth.
Deviating from the topic of political curtseys and bows, we have
reached the period of exhaustion where a threat named "Iran" has
been created. Turkey has no time to encourage the subjective and
continuing conception of Azerbaijan. Aliyev’s "Main Kampf" does not
meet Ankara’s interests in conditions of the changed geopolitics in
the region where Iran poses the key threat to peace.
Apparently, Turkey will have to "face the music" shortly, and any
maneuvers and digression will face another message. This time,
Sargsyan may greet Gul from a submarine.