Changes in Turkey will not influence Armenia (video)
Comparably developed regions of Turkey voted against the constitutional changes; mainly undeveloped regions voted for it. It proves that people in Turkey do not want changes, said today turkologist Ruben Safrastyan at the meeting with journalists. According to the prediction of the turkologist, the upcoming two years will be very hard for Turkey, as many laws must be changed and adapted to the new Constitution. It means that tense struggle is awaited inside Turkey. According to his observation, from large political parties, Nationalist Party supported Erdogan. “Erdogan rests on pan-Turkism extreme forces. Though Turkey is taking the authoritarian government route, it isn’t sultanate, as some balance, at least formally is maintained. The parliament will continue keeping the right to announce impeachment to president. The president should be in some limitations. Erdogan’s personality is important here, if it wasn’t Erdogan and if there was any other individual, these changes would be more acceptable for the West and Europe. Simply knowing Erdogan, his character, everybody is afraid that Turkey may become more predictable.” Touching upon the influence of constitutional changes on relations with Armenia, turkologist noted that there is no need to await changes, “Turkey will continue its policy of not allowing creation of Kurdish state in Middle East. It will be the main point of Turkey’s foreign politics. Turkey’s political elite has less or more general approach towards relations with Armenia. Armenia has no geopolitical, economic significant for Turkey and the relations can be left on the same, non existing level.”
