’I doubt that Turkey can afford complete disavowal of the military cooperation with the United States.
I do not believe in the ability of Turkey to take really drastic steps over the resolution’, said vice-president of Russia’s Center for Political Technologies, Sergey Mikheev.
’The Committee voted for. The results of voting of the general composition of the Congress are unclear. Frankly speaking, I do not believe in the ability of Turkey to take really drastic steps over the resolution. Of course, much will depend on the reaction of the Turkish society, but I guess that in the end Ankara will approach this problem pragmatically and the whole anger will be just limited with articles in media, rallies, protests and so on. Turks are most likely not to take really serious steps aimed at the real worsening of relations with the United States.
I doubt that Turkey can afford complete disavowal of the military cooperation with the United States. The closure of the base also seems unlikely. Some individual, one-time demarches are possible, but in general any radical changes are unlikely. Although the threat are likely to continue’.
As for the prospects for the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations at a time when Armenians call on Turkey to normalize relations with Yerevan, and are simultaneously trying to push the issue of so-called “Genocide,” Mikheyev said the following:
’This step can really affect only the Armenian-Turkish relations. The Armenian diaspora in the United States is really quite active. However, today the Turkish Foreign Ministry has already issued a statement that this fact should not affect the relations with Armenia’.
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