Avigdor Eskin: Pro-Turkish clan wins inside Azerbaijan

ArmInfo. Inside Azerbaijan, the pro-Turkish clan wins, and after long hesitation, Aliyev decided that war is his chance for political survival. Famous Israeli political scientist  Avigdor Eskin expressed this opinion in an interview with ArmInfo  correspondent.

In his opinion, the Turkish factor is the catalyst for a full-scale  war in Nagorno-Karabakh, which threatens to destabilize the entire  region. According to the political scientist, today's war is not a  war between two conflicting peoples. This is a war between them,  multiplied by the fact of Turkish revanchism and Islamism.

According to Eskin, Turkish President Erdogan is painful about the  failures in Libya and Syria. He was driven back into the  Mediterranean by the alliance of Greece with France and Israel. He  was outraged by the peace agreements between Jerusalem and the Arab  countries.

And therefore, he believes, if until now the conflict was of a local  nature, then with the arrival of Syrian mercenaries of terrorist  fighters, the conflict may become religious. And this is extremely  dangerous for Russia too. Aliyev is well aware that this is a  dangerous move, but he prefers such risks to the threat of being  overthrown because of inaction and corruption. He is in a difficult  position. After much hesitation, he decided that war was his chance  for political survival. And he took the grip of a Turkish embrace.  Bone crushing vice.

Relations with Turkey are characterized by growing confrontation. It  went as far as encouraging Ankara to fire terrorist attacks on  Israeli civilian targets in the south by Hamas and frankly irrelevant  activities among the Israeli Arabs. Israel is in especially close  relations with Greece on a wide range of issues. Among other things,  Israel will supply its gas to Europe in gigantic volumes, passing it  across the sea to Greece. To say that Erdogan does not like it is to  say nothing:

Eskin also stressed that, unlike the conflict in the Mediterranean,  in which Israel actively sided with Greece, taking part in military  maneuvers, there is no political Israeli participation in the  conflict in Karabakh. However, as the Israeli political scientist  noted, it should still be clarified that in 2015 the Israelis signed  a contract with Baku on the sale of weapons for $ 5 billion. This  contract is still valid. "On the other hand, Israel views Turkey as a  strategic enemy and cannot wish it success," the political scientist  concluded.