Tuesday, December 22 2020 12:48

ArmInfo.The logic of the second Artsakh war, its results and especially the processes observed after the end of hostilities speak in favor of the fact that  large-scale, including military, actions await our region. A similar  opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Dean of the Faculty of Oriental  Studies of YSU, Turkologist Ruben Melkonyan.

"In this sense, geopolitically  I consider the 44-day war in a much  broader context . Taking into account the continued concentration of  the Iranian army on the border, the strengthening of the Turkish  factor, the US policy, I expect an increase in the Russian military  presence in general, and an increase in peacekeeping.  contingent, in  particular, " he said.

According to the Turkologist, in a big war of regional powers, the  question of the existence of Armenia may not have any value in their  eyes at all. Moreover, even today the Turkish-Azerbaijani threat  against Armenia is developing, according to Melkonyan, in two  vectors: military - Artsakh vector, and, at first glance, in a  completely peaceful vector, in the form of a cooperation plat

According to the estimates of the Turkologist, today Armenia  continues to be a target for the Turkish- Azerbaijani tandem. This is  what Erdogan is talking about openly. Meanwhile, Ankara and Baku have  already agreed on the construction of a gas pipeline from Turkish  Igdir to Nakhchivan. According to Melkonyan, this gas pipeline will  continue through the territory of Armenia. This opportunity is  provided to the tandem by the act of surrender in the 44-day war  signed by Yerevan on November 9.

"Already today, negotiations are underway between Turkey and  Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia on laying a gas pipeline through the  territory of Armenia. And Armenia is not even asked if it agrees to  become a transit country. They simply do not remember us at these  negotiations. Meanwhile, the gas pipeline is only a part of the  Turkish-Azerbaijani plan for the Anschluss of Syunik. And Baku is   already actively printing corresponding maps, " Melkonyan summed up.