Political expert: Battle actions in Syria will negatively affect Karabakh conflict settlement process

• Monday, October 22, 19:03

 Battle actions in Syria will negatively affect Karabakh conflict settlement process, director of the "Noravank" fund, Gagik Harutyunyan, said at today's press-conference.

He said that Syria is de-facto in war which in future may turn into a military operation of the USA and its allies against Iran. He also added that such a scenario is beneficial to Turkey which is pretending to the status of regional superpower. "Turkey itself is an interested party in the Karabakh conflict, and the growth of its influence will bring dividends to Azerbaijan which is eager to settle the conflict by means of war. As for Turkey, it also wants to have a lark at the territory of Armenia", - he said. The expert added that some optimistic political experts draw  another actions plan, in particular, continuation of the "Arab spring" in Turkey. Such development of events would be beneficial to Armenia, but it is hardly possible, he said.

The modern Turkey has nothing in common with that of the 90-s, he said and added that at present Ankara has been trying to get beyond control of Russia and the USA and to play its own part at the Middle East. Turkey's attitude to Iran and Syria is stemming from this, he said. "It is no secret that the USA and Russia cannot any more dictate their rules to Turkey. But it is not clear yet if 
Moscow and Washington can keep Turkey from attacking Syria. However, taking into consideration the fact that there are many interested parties in the Syrian issue - EU, China, the USA and Russia, the above mentioned global players will take measures to mortify Ankara, and civil war will go on developing in Syria", - he said. At the same time, he added that the returning point has been
already lost and suspension of the "Arab spring" is impossible, as the situation has already run out of control of its scenarists.