Turkologist: Armenia continues to be a wall separating Erdogan from  "Big Turan"

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.