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TURKOLOGIST. "IT IS USELESS TO EXPECT ANYTHING FROM TURKEY."
December 27 2013
Ruben Safrastyan, turkologist, Director of Institute of Oriental
Studies, does not recommend expecting anything from Turkey on the eve
of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. "There is no need
to wait for something. The prognostic that Turkey could fundamentally
change its policy in recognizing the Armenian Genocide, is missing. I
do not also consider the show organized in Yerevan serious. The Turkish
Foreign minister's interview with Turkish journalists regarding the
Armenian-Turkish relations did not say anything," said Mr. Safrastyan,
today, at "Pastark" club. He also said that the Armenian-Turkish
relations stirred the interest of different centers around the world,
because they are driven by Turkey's relations with other countries,
and what will be the situation in the South Caucasus.
"The current state of affairs of Karabakh works for all major centers
in the world, this is geopolitically frozen." To the question of how
Armenia's membership to the CU would affect the possibilities of the
Armenian-Turkish dialogue, the turkologist said, "Armenia's accession
is of no special geopolitical importance to the world. What happened
was due to the fact that we still had a contract with Russia since
1997, we are a CSTO member, and Russia's military bases are deployed
in Armenia. Geopolitically, no new phenomenon happened; therefore,
the situation is not changed." Turkologist Hakob Chakryan does
not see any perspective in the Armenian-Turkish dialogue, because
"Armenian-Turkish dialogue does not exist, there would not be a
dialogue even on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide. They would only try to create an impression that they
want to resume the dialogue, to create the illusion that they are
ready only to possibly lessen the effect. So, accession of failure
to join the Customs Union will not have a significant effect on the
Armenian-Turkish dialogue, or the development of relations." In
the conversation with us, Mr. Chakryan also expressed an opinion
that the Karabakh conflict settlement is actually frozen. According
to him, there is a competition going on between the Minsk Co-chair
countries regarding the settlement of Karabakh conflict, for the sake
of influence in the South Caucasus. "Everybody is in favor of the
conflict to be settled, and depending on which country would settle
it, the influence of given country will drastically increase."
Arpine Simonyan
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/12/27/163225/
From: Baghdasarian
December 27 2013
Ruben Safrastyan, turkologist, Director of Institute of Oriental
Studies, does not recommend expecting anything from Turkey on the eve
of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. "There is no need
to wait for something. The prognostic that Turkey could fundamentally
change its policy in recognizing the Armenian Genocide, is missing. I
do not also consider the show organized in Yerevan serious. The Turkish
Foreign minister's interview with Turkish journalists regarding the
Armenian-Turkish relations did not say anything," said Mr. Safrastyan,
today, at "Pastark" club. He also said that the Armenian-Turkish
relations stirred the interest of different centers around the world,
because they are driven by Turkey's relations with other countries,
and what will be the situation in the South Caucasus.
"The current state of affairs of Karabakh works for all major centers
in the world, this is geopolitically frozen." To the question of how
Armenia's membership to the CU would affect the possibilities of the
Armenian-Turkish dialogue, the turkologist said, "Armenia's accession
is of no special geopolitical importance to the world. What happened
was due to the fact that we still had a contract with Russia since
1997, we are a CSTO member, and Russia's military bases are deployed
in Armenia. Geopolitically, no new phenomenon happened; therefore,
the situation is not changed." Turkologist Hakob Chakryan does
not see any perspective in the Armenian-Turkish dialogue, because
"Armenian-Turkish dialogue does not exist, there would not be a
dialogue even on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide. They would only try to create an impression that they
want to resume the dialogue, to create the illusion that they are
ready only to possibly lessen the effect. So, accession of failure
to join the Customs Union will not have a significant effect on the
Armenian-Turkish dialogue, or the development of relations." In
the conversation with us, Mr. Chakryan also expressed an opinion
that the Karabakh conflict settlement is actually frozen. According
to him, there is a competition going on between the Minsk Co-chair
countries regarding the settlement of Karabakh conflict, for the sake
of influence in the South Caucasus. "Everybody is in favor of the
conflict to be settled, and depending on which country would settle
it, the influence of given country will drastically increase."
Arpine Simonyan
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/12/27/163225/
From: Baghdasarian