Turkiye`s role in South Caucasus lessening amid improving Russia-US  relations - expert 

ArmInfo.  Against the backdrop of improving Russian- American relations, Turkey's role in  the South Caucasus region is significantly reduced. Turkologist  Varuzhan Geghamyan holds a similar point of view.

In his Telegram channel, he wrote that in the ongoing negotiations  between the US and Russia, to which the attention of the whole world  is riveted, details are important. "One of such important details, in  my opinion, is that Turkey has effectively lost its status as a  neutral country in the Ukrainian conflict, and, consequently, its  status as a mediator. Let me remind you that in 2022-2023, Ankara was  the main mediator, from which Erdogan benefited significantly in  solving his problems. Now the situation has changed. Turkey has ceded  its role to Saudi Arabia, where the meeting of US-Russian envoys took  place, and where the meeting of the US and Russian presidents -  Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin - is expected to take place. Simply  put, this is good news, since it deprives Turkey of wide room for  maneuver in foreign policy issues, and also indicates a decrease in  the latter's role for Russia and tensions in bilateral relations,"  Geghamyan noted. 

All this, according to him, combined with a number of other facts,  gives grounds for some optimism regarding Turkey's limited role in  the South Caucasus. "Of course, this does not mean that our threats  will disappear automatically. However, the possibilities to counter  them are increasing, and national forces must take advantage of  this," the political scientist wrote.