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    ANKARA AND YEREVAN ECONOMIC INTERESTS CAN SHOVE BACK KARABAKH PROBLEM

    PanArmenian News
    Dec 7 2004

    07.12.2004 15:10

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The analytical section of Gazetasng.ru draws
    attention to the coincidence of the Brussels making a decision to
    accelerate the beginning of the talks on accession of Turkey to
    the European Union and Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit
    to Ankara. As reported by Gazetasng.ru, some Turkish media again
    started speaking about a possible settlement of the Armenian-Azeri
    relations, as well as establishment of Turkish-Armenian diplomatic
    relations. In the opinion of the Internet edition, "there are implicit
    signs that Ankara does not intend to publicly and unambiguously
    support Azerbaijan in the Karabakh issue." In the opinion of the
    article author, Turkey is not against Armenia having the foreign
    trade transit via the railway from Gumri to Ankara, Istanbul and to
    the Balkans either. "There are reasons for supposing that long-term
    economic interests of Moscow, Ankara and Yerevan will allow to shove
    back the Nagorno Karabakh problem." As noted by the Turkish media,
    Ankara perceives that Turkey's obstinacy and e.g. a direct or indirect
    participation in the events in the North Caucasus can entail Russia
    (and even Armenia) supporting the Kurdish rebels, who operate exactly
    in the Turkish sector of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan trunk. As supposed by
    Kerimoghlu Turkish historian, "Turkey has its interests in the region,
    however she does not wish to quarrel with Russia and its allies in the
    same region. Turkey bewares that while she is sorting out relationships
    with Moscow and Yerevan, Americans will establish their hegemony in
    the Transcaucasia and the Caspian (as they have done in the North of
    Iraq that Turkey has aspired for a long time). It should be reminded
    that the Azeri-Turkish relations are not always unclouded, and the
    anti-Turkish moods are not that rare among the Russian-language Azeri
    intelligence and other strata of the society.
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