Turkey is currently facing important tasks that distract it from fulfilling ally obligations before Azerbaijan, political scientist said.
Moscow’s position that insists on impossibility to bind the Karabakh and Armenian-Turkish issues shows the obsoleteness and ineffectiveness of the balance in the foreign policy observed by Azerbaijan many years. Political scientist Rasim Aghayev proposed to disavow this policy that did not give any effect in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict.
The foreign policy course of balancing between the interests of Russia and the West has become obsolete due to the new realities that emerged in the world. The Azerbaijani policy is growing ineffective due to the global economic crisis, deepening of Islamic anti-Americanism and Turkey’s transformation into a big regional superpower with its independent course, Aghayev considers.
He said Turkey is currently facing important tasks that distract it from fulfilling ally obligations before Azerbaijan. This is a Kurdish issue, the Armenian problem and Turkey’s intention to become the full member of EU.
“The power and influence of Turkey was demonstrated during its diplomatic conflict with Israel that ended in Tel-Aviv’s apologizing. Turkey’s influence is growing and if the Turkish-Russian rapprochement continues we will see Moscow’s policy turning into anti-Armenian. In these new conditions Baku should propose its own foreign policy initiative like ‘a roadmap’. If we use old things, we will lose”, Aghayev concluded.
