by News.am
Reconciliation with Armenia is a part of geopolitical game that Turkey plays with West on the whole and EU in particular, Azerbaijani political expert Arif Yunus told 1news.az.
According to him, the Armenia-Turkey relations’ normalization has not failed yet: “but each side wants to make the most of the process.”
“This is a real geopolitical game. We should not think that Turkey is utterly concerned over Karabakh conflict settlement or protection of Azerbaijani interests,” Yunus said.
The expert considers that the protests of Azerbaijan and local opposition are advantageous to Turkey, as it enables Ankara to state about significance of Protocols’ ratification and protract the process, “Turkey will protract the ratification till it tears the guts out of the process. It is Ankara’s tactics.”
Yunus ruled out the possibility of U.S. pressure on Turkey in the ratification process.
“One should not expect early breakthrough in Armenia-Turkey relations till Ankara makes profit of this process,” the expert concluded.
A.G.
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