Turkey, which is at the gunpoint of the West, and Russia have common interests, Manvel Sargsyan, Head of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies, says when commenting on the information disseminated by RIA Novosti.
On April 13, a high-ranking representative of the Turkish Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti on the condition of anonymity that Russia may contribute to the Turkish-Armenian normalization while the Pope's statement on the Armenian Genocide in Western Armenia is estranging Turkey from Armenia.
"In this light, the emergence of the given information sounds quite logical. After the Western world actively involved the Armenian cause in its policy arsenal, Moscow and Ankara had to think about the aftermath of that policy together," he says.
The analyst describes the given processes as earnest given Armenia's certain dependence in the policy aimed at recognition of the Armenian Genocide. According to him, the latest developments around the international process of the Genocide recognition demonstrate the West's general approach to the Armenian-Turkish relations and to Turkey, first of all.
In this light, Sargsyan thinks that Ankara is trying to clean up the situation with the help of Moscow and that the stove-piping is far from being the most important manifestation of the process.
"Today everyone wonders whether Vladimir Putin will visit Armenia on April 24 or not. So, Putin has some reasons to think over that matter. The common serious problems Russia and Turkey are trying to resolve together also matter here," Sargsyan says.
To note, on April 12 during a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica Pope Francis said that the annihilation of 1.5 mln Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was the first Genocide of XX century. He called the Genocide one of the three massive and unprecedented tragedies of XX century along with Nazism and Stalinism. Vatican's ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for explanations and the Turkish ambassador to Vatican was recalled "for consultations".