Tuesday, January 23 2018 15:20

ArmInfo. "Turkey's invasion of the territory of Syria is conditioned by both internal political and foreign policy factors," said Vardan Voskanyan, head of the department of Iranian studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Yerevan State University. On January 23, at a press conference in Yerevan, he stated that Erdogan's attempts to establish relations with the Kurds could be attributed to internal political factors, but all his attempts failed completely. Voskanyan stated that the main goal of Turkey at the moment is the maximum weakening of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. This party created the greatest problems for Turkey, of course, except for the Armenian issue. As for foreign policy factors, according to the expert, they can be attributed to Turkey's attempts to strengthen its influence in the region. "Despite the fact that there were certain agreements between Russia, Turkey and Iran with regard to Syria, which temporarily rallied them into a kind of triumvirate, Turkey was not entirely satisfied with its role, however, the current actions of Turkey are contrary to the interests of Iran," - Voskanyan said, while stressing that Washington may be involved in this process. According to the expert, if the US authorities render the PKK in Syria certain assistance, then the Kurds will be able to resist Turkey, however, if this assistance is not forthcoming, then in this case the Kurds will suffer a significant defeat. However, however that may be, the expert expressed confidence that Iran will, in one way or another, interfere in this process, and actively cooperate with the Kurds in order to oust Turkey from these territories. Note that at the end of last week Turkish aviation struck Syrian Afrina on Kurdish formations. Saturday on the beginning. The military operation under the name "Olive branch" was announced by the President of Turkey Recep Erdogan. Countries that were guarantors of the ceasefire in Syria, on December 22, following the results of the international meeting in Astana agreed to hold the Congress of the Syrian national dialogue in Sochi from 29 to 30 January. This forum will focus on the development of a new Syrian constitution and the holding of elections on its basis under the auspices of the United Nations.