The analytical section of Gazetasng.ru draws attention to the coincidence of the Brussels making a decision to accelerate the beginning of the talks on accession of Turkey to the European Union and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Ankara. As reported by Gazetasng.ru, some Turkish media again started speaking about a possible settlement of the Armenian-Azeri relations, as well as establishment of Turkish-Armenian diplomatic relations.
In the opinion of the Internet edition, “there are implicit signs that Ankara does not intend to publicly and unambiguously support Azerbaijan in the Karabakh issue.” In the opinion of the article author, Turkey is not against Armenia having the foreign trade transit via the railway from Gumri to Ankara, Istanbul and to the Balkans either. “There are reasons for supposing that long-term economic interests of Moscow, Ankara and Yerevan will allow to shove back the Nagorno Karabakh problem.” As noted by the Turkish media, Ankara perceives that Turkey’s obstinacy and e.g. a direct or indirect participation in the events in the North Caucasus can entail Russia (and even Armenia) supporting the Kurdish rebels, who operate exactly in the Turkish sector of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan trunk. As supposed by Kerimoghlu Turkish historian, “Turkey has its interests in the region, however she does not wish to quarrel with Russia and its allies in the same region. Turkey bewares that while she is sorting out relationships with Moscow and Yerevan, Americans will establish their hegemony in the Transcaucasia and the Caspian (as they have done in the North of Iraq that Turkey has aspired for a long time).
It should be reminded that the Azeri-Turkish relations are not always unclouded, and the anti-Turkish moods are not that rare among the Russian-language Azeri intelligence and other strata of the society.
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