Russian Orientalist: Aggressive foreign policy of Turkey and its  president will not change, but will intensify even more

ArmInfo. Russian Orientalist and Economist, President of the Independent Scientific  Center "Institute of the Middle East Evgeny Satanovsky spoke about  the unrest in Turkey, and the possible resulting processes from it  against the background of the fall of the lira.

Thus, according to the professor, the unrest with noisy demands for  the resignation of the government, for the resignation of President  Recep Tayyip Erdogan and for the removal of his Justice and  Development Party from power in Turkey, where the national currency  has once again sagged, caused a sharp, but little based attention  among politicians and journalists of neighboring countries, including  Armenia.

"Isn't this the beginning of Erdogan's end? Will Turkey reduce the  pressure on neighboring countries, especially on Yerevan (more than  understandable expectations against the background of tension around  the "Zangezur Corridor", and not only among the residents of the  Lachin region of Armenia, who are primarily concerned)? "Will the  problems in the economy stop the Turkish expansion in the post-Soviet  space, for which the Turks simply do not have enough money? And so on  in the same vein," the Russian scientist noted.

According to Satanovsky, in fact, all these processes are likely to  only accelerate the actions of the Turkish authorities. According to  him, now Turkey needs new markets and new sources of energy, and the  Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia provide it with all of  this, as well as the Turkic regions of Russia, with whom Turkish  businessmen are forging ever closer ties, opening the way for  specialists in promoting the Turkish version of political Islam in  the style of the Muslim Brotherhood and pan-Turkic ideology.  The  Orientalist believes that Erdogan's appetites are large, and his  plans are even greater, so that Turkish Islamist foundations are also  training people for Muslims in India and China, and for Indonesia and  Germany, and for Russian regions, including the completely secular  Yakutia, where Orthodoxy and traditional beliefs are the most  widespread of religions.  "But the Yakuts are Turks as well? Turks.  This is more than enough for Erdogan. What optimists who sincerely  believe that problems in the Turkish economy will stop Erdogan do not  understand is that any difficulties in domestic politics are most  easily resolved in conditions of external conflicts. So they are  often untied precisely in order to distract the population from  dissatisfaction with their superiors and their course. This is the  basic of practical political science, but no one ever takes them into  account, and in vain.  So the aggressive foreign policy of Turkey and  its president will not change, but on the contrary, this country will  be even more conflicted than it is today. Erdogan has nowhere to  retreat, and who to attack:  Paris with Berlin, Moscow with Yerevan  or Delhi with Beijing, wringing out everything that he succeeds in,  and in general, he does not care, even USA, that he is successfully  demonstrating in Syria. Such a person, such an era ... ",  summed up  Satanovsky.

On November 23, Turkey recorded the maximum drop in the exchange rate  of the national currency against the dollar over the past 20 years.  Against this background, even Apple has suspended sales of its  devices in Turkey. After record inflation, spontaneous protests took  place in Istanbul and Ankara. The protesters demanded the resignation  of the government and the ruling Justice and Development Party. The  police dispersed the demonstrators. According to media reports, the  collapse of the Turkish Lira boomerang in the northern regions of  Syria, which are controlled by the Ankara-backed opposition. As the  lira fell sharply against the dollar in parts of Idlib and Hama  governorates, food prices were reported to have jumped 400%, fuel  prices by 350% and non-food items by 200%.

According to experts, the protest actions in Turkey will die out on  their own and will not be able to have a serious impact on the  internal political processes in the country.