Monday, May 16 2022 17:51

ArmInfo.Demanding more specifics from Yerevan in the process of normalizing relations between the two countries, Ankara, in fact, opens a new front against Armenia. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Dean of YSU Faculty of  Oriental Studies, Turkologist, Professor Ruben Melkonyan.

"We see a gradually increasing degree of Turkish pressure on the  Armenian authorities, which does not promise anything good for the  latter in the foreseeable future. Ankara will now force Yerevan to do  specific actions in a specific direction on its field. And in case of  abandoning the rules of the game dictated by it, without a doubt it  will resort to its rich arsenal of pressure tools and mechanisms," he  forecasts.

According to the professor, one of such mechanisms continues to be  Turkish preconditions towards Armenia. And Ankara, according to his  forecasts, will actively use any such mechanisms against Yerevan, up  to their elevation to the rank of expansion tools. According to the  forecasts of the Turkologist, such a Turkish policy, which continues  to be based on Armenophobia, will inevitably give a conflict  character to the Armenian-Turkish relations, even if the process of  their normalization is successfully completed.

" Let us put a point on it - it is Turkey who wants to normalize  relations with Armenia, which at the same time seeks to see Artsakh  as part of Azerbaijan. This is due to the willingness of the current  leadership of Armenia to cross the red lines that are taboo for all  its predecessors throughout the country's modern history. This became  necessary for Ankara only today for the simple reason that, unlike  the past three decades, today it can dictate its will to Yerevan," he  stressed.

In this light, the professor paid particular attention to the Turkish  proposals for a new clarification of the Armenian-Turkish border. The  latter, in his opinion, is due to Turkey's desire to receive official  recognition of its own territorial integrity from Armenia as a result  of such clarification. Of course, through the legitimization of the  Treaty of Kars, which in fact is just one of its own preconditions in  relation to Armenia.