Thursday, June 16 2022 13:22

ArmInfo. Turkey is concerned with  eradicating the Armenian identity rather than with unblocking the  transport links or opening a corridor via Armenia, as the  disappearance of the Armenians will close the issue Turkey is  extremely concerned about, namely, the Armenian Cause, Artak  Zakaryan, a member of the ARF-D Executive Council, said in an   interview with ArmInfo.

 "The stage of rapprochement between Armenia  and Turkey in 2009 and 2010 coincided with recognition of the  Armenian Genocide by a number of countries, putting Ankara in a  rather difficult international situation, whereas the current stage  does not pose any threats to Turks, as Turkey and Azerbaijan do not  consider Armenia a political factor at all," he said. 

As soon as the "normalization" process is completed, Turkey will  embark on an economic expansion into Armenia, which will cause about  a third of the Armenia's population to leave the country. The  conscious sections of Armenia's population will never put up with  Turkish expansion, which will cause the "remnants of Armenia's social  elite" to leave the country, Mr Zakaryan said. 

According to him the opposition has been able to force Armenia's  "defeatist" authorities to restrict their conspiratorial activity  aimed at undermining the security of Armenia and Artsakh. It is the  struggle being waged by part of Armenia's society that has shown the  world that Armenia is not going to turn into a "corridor" for other  nations' economic interests. 

"The world has seen Armenia is not going to put up with a situation  when Turks and Azerbaijanis will force their agenda on us nor are  their interests going to be advanced or served at our expense. Thus,  by means of protests, the opposition succeeded in accomplishing this  serious foreign policy task, whereas [Armenia's Premier Nikol]  Pashinyan has proved unable to do it since coming to power, but has  found himself between a rock and a hard place," Mr Zakaryan said.