Nothing will change “overnight” as a result of Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev’s visit to Turkey.
It will not have much influence on the Armenian-Turkish relations, political scientists Yervand Bozoyan and Alexander Manasyan told a press conference today.
They agree also that the Russian-Turkish relations have entered a new strategic stage.
According to Yervand Bozoyan, Turkey has minimal and maximal expectations from Russia. The minimum it wants is to participate in the discussions on Nagorno Karabakh, and Armenian political scientists see danger here. On a more global scale, Turkey wants Russia to pressure Armenia on Karabakh issue.
The Russian-Turkish relations have entered a strategic stage, but Russia is trying not to harm its strategic partnership with Armenia.
According to the report of Public Radio of Armenia, Yervand Bozoyan said, “Such development of Russian-Turkish relations will not result in dangerous processes for us, if we do not to harm ourselves. In particular, I mean the football diplomacy."
Alexander Manasyan says that “although the Russian-Turkish relations are mostly of economic nature, the political interests are obvious. Those are primarily related to the transit of energy through Russian territory, where the interests of the two countries overlap.”
“We must speak about our political interests rather than economic ones, since Armenia can hardly participate in the economic projects Russia and Turkey are involved in. As regards the political interests, since Russia and Turkey are strategic partners like Russia and Armenia, it turns out that Turkey and Armenia also become strategic partners,” he added. However, this is not true in reality, Manasyan says, adding that Armenia’s real interested here is to get more real security guarantees.
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