ArmInfo. Cavusoglu's message is understandable - Ankara is offering Moscow a deal tageted at solving the Artsakh problem together. Moreover, this is not the first time. Such opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by associate expert of the Armenian Institute of International Relations and Security, Turkologist Hayk Gabrielyan.
Within recent days, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu again called on Russia to exert pressure on Armenia to resolve the Karabakh conflict. "If Russia uses its influence, we can solve the Karabakh conflict," the Turkish diplomat said.
"For the first time, a very similar deal was made between Ataturk Turkey and Bolshevik Russia 100 years ago. And today Ankara would love to repeat it. It seems that Turkey really wants to get Nakhichevan by offering Artsakh to Russia in exchange. And one should not exclude the scenario in which the Turks can try to make true their old dream and get Nakhijevan," he stressed.
In this light, the expert considers the hopes of the Turkish Foreign Minister to have Russian influence on Armenia and Artsakh as part of a far-reaching Turkish strategy, in which Moscow will put pressure on Yerevan, while Ankara will put its own on Baku. Gabrielyan sees this potential multi-step approach as a continuation of the "cooperation" between Russia and Turkey in Syria, where Moscow has an influence on President Bashar Assad and operates the influence mentioned, and Ankara controls the group of terrorists and has influence on the Syrian opposition.
"This is what Chavushoglu has in mind when he expects "steps from Russia," exactly the first step in resolving the Artsakh problem. The first step is to put pressure on the Armenian parties to the conflict to surrender territories to Azerbaijan. The Turks are well aware of the impossibility of achieving such a result by using exclusively Azerbaijan's own abilities and capabilities. But they continue to believe that Russia is able to do it. And they are even ready to play in this highly desired game under the second number, "Gabrielyan summed up.