Turkish special services are preparing a wide-ranging provocation in Georgian regions populated by Armenians. The Caspian news agency has been informed about this by informed sources in Moscow. According to the reports of the source, “making use of the internal weakness of the Georgian State, the Turkish side aims at strengthening its military-political presence in Transcaucasia and in Georgia particularly”. The provocation in Samthskhe-Javakhetia region, according to the plan developed by the Turkish special services, on the one hand will cause the tension between Georgian-Armenian relation, on the other hand, the tension between Georgian-Russian relations. This, according to the Turkish plans, will cause the drastic pressure of the US upon Russia and operational withdrawal of all the Russian forces from Georgia. Then, as the source in Moscow has reported, Turkish part will try to provoke Georgian-Armenian military provocation. After this, being afraid of large-scale military conflict with Armenia” and through the active US mediation, region Samtskhe-Javakhetia will be declared “the zone of international responsibility that should be secured by the Turkish armed forces”. According to the planes of Ankara, by 2003 Samthkse-Javakhetia should be liberated from Armenian population and should be under Turkey’s protectorate.