Expert: The hopes of the Turkish Foreign Minister for exerting  Russian influence on Armenia are part of a far-reaching strategy

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.