“Russia will use other means to put pressure on Turkey” (video)
During the recent 4 months there have been 5 terrorist acts, two of which- large. The Armenian experts consider March 13 explosion in Ankara to be the result of Turkey’s inner and regional policy. "The actions and the policy of the Turkish authorities, as well as adventurism in many cases resulted in the situation, which exists today in Turkey, and the terrorist acts, in fact, were a response to it,” Turkologist Levon Hovsepyan told “A1+”. Some days ago the US diplomatic mission to Turkey warned against the possible attack, but the Turkish authorities didn’t take any steps for its prevention. In this context Levon Hovsepyan highlights: “It seems that there is a tendency that it is somehow advantageous to the Turkish authorities. I don’t say that it was certainly organized by the state, but perhaps just from the point of view of prevention it ensures certain leverages for the Turkish authorities for certain actions in the future.” Though there is still no official information about the organizers of the terrorist act, taking into account a number of circumstances the Turkologists suppose whom the official Ankara will blame. Ruben Safrastyan, Director of Institute of Oriental Studies, thinks that once again the Kurdish organizations will become a target. “I don’t rule out that this regrettable terrorist act will be used by Erdogan’s government for moving the Turkish armed divisions to Iraq or Syria or for starting new aggressive actions,” he said. Erdogan-Aliyev meeting is planned in Azerbaijan on March 15, which likely will be postponed for already second time. In this context Levon Hovsepyan notes that the claims by the Turkish media, that that visit is against Russia’s interests and some Russian forces are interested that this meeting will not be held, is illogical and out of political processes. “The Turkish media is trying to find certain traces and divert the attention toward Russia trying to show that Erdogan’s visit to Azerbaijan contradicts the interests of Russia. I consider it baseless.” Irrespective of Russia-Turkey tense relations, Turkologists consider Russia’s involvement in terrorist act to be unlikely. It is notable that days ago Russia’s government and the Supreme Court rejected the draft law on criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide. “I don’t think that it was an urgent agenda issue in Russia. I think that Russia will try to use other means to put pressure on Turkey,” says Ruben Safrastyan. Details on the video
