ArmInfo.Changes in Iraqi Kurdistan, launched by a referendum on independence, make the domino effect of the strengthening of the Kurdish factor in Iran, perhaps, the greatest threat to Armenia. Similar opinion was expressed by ArmInfo of the head of the department of Iranian studies of YSU, orientalist Vardan Voskanyan.
"Ultimately, this increase can reach the northern Iranian province of Atrpatakan, and the threat of the development of the Turkic-speaking separatist movement in our southern borders from the interests of Armenia clearly does not emanate." In general, the multi-layered and multi-vector process surrounding Iraqi Kurds is for Armenia as challenges, and opportunities, and Yerevan should, guided solely by its own interests, if possible without emotions assess both the likely risks and opportunities, "the expert said.
According to preliminary data, more than 95% of the population of Iraqi Kurdistan voted for the independence of the region from Iraq at the September 25 referendum. According to the official representative of the Supreme Independent Electoral Commission for the elections and referendum Shirvan Zarari, 3 million 305 thousand 925 people took part in the voting. The final results of the referendum will be made public within 72 hours after the voting ends.
"We can not remain indifferent to the struggle of the Kurds for independence, obviously, the threat to the security of the north of Iran can have an extremely negative impact on Armenia, since the access to Iran is vitally important for us." I think that the coincidence of our interests with the interests of any another state will lead to the development of processes in the direction more favorable for Armenia, "he stressed. Among the positive trends for Armenia, the orientalist predicted the destruction of the invisible, but in his opinion, likely Erdogan-Barzani union, by means of which Ankara tries to become the dominant in the Middle East.
Voskanyan also believes that the additional Kurdish problems of Ankara will require additional resources in the direction of the inadmissibility caused by the beginning of the process of creating the Kurdish statehood in the territory of neighboring Iraq, the strengthening of the Kurdish factor in Turkey itself.