ArmInfo.Armenia continues to be a wall separating Turkey from "Big Turan". Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Ruben Safrastyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"Turkey signs separate military-technical agreements with all Turkic-speaking states, including providing for the supply of weapons produced in Turkey to these countries. This is the path, politics, ideology of Recep Erdogan and his army towards the formation of "Big Turan", which Turkey is now quite openly demonstrating. I think that over the years this pan-Turkist concept will be implemented, "he said.
In this light, the Turkologist recalled how, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Mustafa Kemal was the first to compare Armenia with the wall separating Turkey from other Turkic-speaking peoples. A wall that must be destroyed so that Turkey can freely communicate with the fraternal Caucasian Turks: a process that, according to Safrastyan, is taking place today in the form of a corresponding Turkish policy. In this light, he views last year's 44-day war as a joint Azerbaijani-Turkish military campaign.
The Turkologist views this war as directed not only against Artsakh, but also at weakening Armenia. After it, Baku, with the support of Ankara, moved from the stage of open to creeping aggression, striving to further weaken the Armenian statehood and isolate Armenia. In his opinion, this goal is not new at all. And today it has acquired an additional direction in the form of a requirement to receive a corridor from Armenia, which will not be covered by the jurisdiction of Yerevan.
"But behind the corridor, and under the pretext of a corridor, there are even more far-reaching goals - namely, the secession of the entire Syunik. In this light, Azerbaijan, in my opinion, in reality is not interested in the process of delimitation and demarcation of borders with Armenia, since today's borders are being considered Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem as temporary. The final long-term goal is the complete unification of Azerbaijan with Nakhijevan. "And if the Russian military withdraws from Artsakh, as Baku regularly demands, it will immediately give additional aggression to Turkey and Azerbaijan," the academician concluded.