IN WHAT DIRECTION "AZERBAIJANI RESOURCE" WILL BE USED
Igor Muradyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/politics/view/28090
Politics - Monday, 19 November 2012, 10:36
The Turkish political elite are confused, and the political discourse
relating to home and foreign political issues is enhanced. There are
no answers to the questions on the relations with the U.S., NATO and
leading European countries. Regional political issues have become
more problematic.
Studying the materials of Turkish, Iranian, Bulgarian and Greek
experts who are distinguished for more objective presentation of
ideas than their colleagues in Europe and America, we can note some
surprise with which they accept events relating to Turkey. We can see
the attempts of the Turkish political class to pause the development
of the foreign policy, trying its political and economic resources
on the issues put forward.
Along this line, Recep Tayyip Erdogan probably understands that any
pause will work against him, so he is trying to imitate activeness or
rather continuation of the declared political course. But now everyone
understands that Turkey's foreign policy has failed, and time will
be needed to compensate the unbelievable moral and political loss
which caused in the wake of unjustified calculations.
There is no hope for a new understanding of the situation. Anyway,
a new debate is brewing in Turkey on various issues, and if this
discussion overlaps with the emerging economic crisis, it may lead
to serious internal political crisis.
Having appeared in such a difficult situation of dependence on the
U.S. and NATO, Turkey is unable to pay attention to Azerbaijan's
foreign political needs. It was supposed that once in blockade and
isolation, Turkey would resort to the scenario of development of the
"Azerbaijani resource" in its foreign policy as it happened during
the "normalization" of the Armenian and Turkish relations. It does
not seem to be happening.
Although, it's not certain. We used to consider the use of the
"Azerbaijani resource" in the Armenian direction but this resource
is used by the Turks toward Russia, Iran, and possibly Israel. In a
certain sense, the "Azerbaijani resource" can be used by Ankara in
any direction, including Europe and the U.S., the point is only about
the capacity and efficiency of the resource in a certain direction.