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.