“Turkish-Russian rapprochement was started long time ago.
The main thing for Azerbaijan is that Erdogan is planning to visit Armenia following Russia”, said chairman of the Russian Islamic Committee, Russian-based Azerbaijani political scientist Heydar Jamal, commenting on the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Moscow on Tuesday.
“Today Armenian-Turkish relations are first intrigue in the South Caucasus and Western Asia where Ankara-Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran quadrangle is formed. Of course, this is not within US and NATO interests”, said Jamal. He said the main thing was that how serious was this quadrangle. “The seriousness of this quadrangle is under the question. The most concerning part is Armenia because Armenian opposition and Diaspora negatively accepted establishing relations with Turkey. The opposition benefits from this situation trying to shake the Sargsyan’s government. I consider that the developments are the beginning of strong and radical events to characterize 2010 and we will see significant changes in the leading part of this game”.
Jamal said he received information about Erdogan’s visit to Yerevan from reliable sources. “I was told that Erdogan will visit Yerevan following Sergei Lavrov”.
Trying to explain goals of Erdogan’s upcoming visit to Yerevan, Jamal focused attention on the problems with ratification of the Turkish-Armenian protocols signed last October in Zurich. “I think that very sensitive issues will be discussed in Yerevan and there will be serious discussions on Iran, Kurdish problem and of course, Karabakh’s fate”.
APA
