Turkey has been trying to get involved in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for years. This is what Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Yerevan State University, Turkologist Ruben Melkonyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“Ankara tries to take advantage of any tension in the region to advance in regard to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the latest development of the events related to Idlib was one of those occasions,” he stated.

The analyst clarified that this is important from the perspective of the allied support that Turkey provides to Azerbaijan and from the perspective of advancing Turkey’s conventional destructive policy in the region.

As far as the tension on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is concerned, since Turkey and Azerbaijan are destructive states, the recent tension was predictable, and we can see Turkey’s ‘hand’ here,” Melkonyan added.