ArmInfo. Armenia can not and should not stay out of the events in the Middle East, particularly in the north of Syria and southeast of Turkey, only because it is in fact a part of this region.
The director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Central Asia, deputy of the State Duma of the V convocation, Colonel Semyon Bagdasarov expressed opinion on February 14 during the Moscow-Yerevan video bridge. "Are there no Yezidis, Assyrians, Kurds among the citizens of Armenia, or are they not in Afrin? The question arises - who should protect the compatriots in Syrian Afrin? Why does the leadership of Armenia remain out of this? Maybe, at least humanitarian aid was provided? Armenia should take an active part in these processes, it is not a secret that there are a lot of crypto-Armenians there or the Armenian churches do not collapse there, you can not sit still, do not sit still! You need to mobilize efforts to fight the common historical enemy. South-Eastern borders of Turkey is the border with Armenia. If someone forgot, this is the historical Western Armenia. You must act, or you wait until Erdogan defeat Kurds, and then to remember something else?", the expert inquired.