Wednesday, August 4 2021 11:22

ArmInfo.The latest informational stuffing, and indeed all the stuffing about the creation of a joint army by Ankara and Baku is an attempt by Turkey to probe the reaction  of neighboring states.

First of all, the reaction of Russia. And of course, such stuffing is a reconnaissance of the reliability and success of Turkey's future actions and a test of the reaction to  these actions of the Turkic-speaking and other states. A similar  opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Victor Nadein- Raevsky, Director  of the Institute of Political and Social Research of the Black  Sea-Caspian Region, senior researcher at IMEMO RAS.

On July 29, Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Sentop,  according to the Azerbaijani media, said in Ganja that Turkey and  Azerbaijan are negotiating to create a unified army. On the same day,  the same media reported that Sentop's statement "was misunderstood  due to a translation error." After that, a new version of the  translation was circulated - "Joint activities are planned in the  field of military cooperation. Work on these agreements is underway.  Our main motto is one nation and two states. Many negotiations and  agreements were held around this."

"It should be recalled here that Turkish interests within the  framework of the ancient pan-Turkic ideas of achieving control over  all Turkic-speaking peoples extend not only to the Turkic-speaking  states, but also to the territory of the Russian Federation.   Meanwhile, most of the autonomous national entities in Russia are  Turkic-speaking. And if we consider that these territories are  already included in "Great Turan" on Turkish maps, we understand that  Moscow, of course, will not welcome the creation of a unified  Turkish-Azerbaijani army. First of all, due to the obvious  aggressiveness of such intentions, "he said.

In this light, Nadein-Raevsky noted the presence of Turkish aircraft  and UAVs on the territory of Azerbaijan. And during the 44- day war  in Karabakh, they were clearly controlled by the Turkish military.  According to him, the creation of a joint Turkish- Azerbaijani army  is part of the idea voiced several years ago to create an army of  Turan. The expert is convinced that the cooperation of the security  systems of the Turkic-speaking states within the framework of the  Turkic Council is aimed at achieving Ankara's control over all  Turkic-speaking states.

According to him, many people today believe in the idea of creating  the Great Turan in Turkey. And some, including Erdogan's coalition  partners, the Nationalist Movement Party, consider this the goal of  their lives. At the same time, not all Turkic-speaking countries are  ready to give up independence in favor of Turkey, in his opinion. And  if such unified army is created, Azerbaijan, according to the expert,  will finally lose control over its army, which will be controlled  exclusively by Turkish generals. As it happened during the 44-day war  in Karabakh.

In this light, Nadein-Raevsky noted that Russia has already deployed  a fairly extensive military contingent in Karabakh, and today it is  already deploying military personnel directly on the border between  Armenia and Azerbaijan. And it is making both bilateral efforts  towards the settlement of the conflict - with Armenia and Azerbaijan,  and multilateral efforts jointly with Turkey and France. Commenting  on the prospect of even greater deployment of Russian troops on the  border with Azerbaijan, the expert noted that first of all it is  necessary to consider what this can give, in fact, to Russia itself.