TURKEY’S ACTIVITY FIZZLES OUT BECAUSE OF AZERBAIJAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.10.2008 14:36 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s Caucasus Platform seems to be an attempt
to steal a march on the United States by offering its scenarios
to restore peace in the South Caucasus after the August events,
according to a Russian expert.
"However, Turkey’s activity fizzled out because of Azerbaijan, it ally
and friend, has assumed a position of non-interference," Vladimir
Zakharov, head of the Center of Caucasus Studies at Moscow State
Institute of International Relations, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
"Ilham Aliyev doesn’t want to spoil relations with his friend, Mikhail
Saakashvili. He doesn’t want to draw Azerbaijan into the anti-Georgian
campaign. His love for Russia is a show. Aliyev is a mature player. He
knows how to harm Russia, without ever getting to be at loggerheads
with it. He made Turkey stop any kind of assistance to the victims
of the armed conflict in South Ossetia but doesn’t have the courage
to make a public statement. Besides, Turkey understood that it won’t
be able to implement its projects, so there is nothing to do but make
the best of a bad job," Zakharov said.