ArmInfo.No reasons to have expectations for real deterioration of Turkey's relations with the West, in particular, with NATO, as well as Ankara's participation in the Karabakh settlement in the foreseeable future. This opinion was voiced by the leading research associate of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Nadein-Rayevsky.
"Turkey, of course, demonstrates rapprochement with Russia and even some rejection of its main partner in NATO - the US In my opinion, there is nothing new in this policy of Erdogan, as there are no illusions about such prospects in reality. strategy will not change, remaining an outpost of the Alliance in the eastern Mediterranean.I think that Erdogan's partners in the Alliance have long resigned themselves to his peculiar negotiating style, "he stressed.
Commenting on the ongoing attempts of the Turkish president to participate in the Karabakh settlement, the expert, stressing the pro-Azerbaijani position of Ankara and Armenia's categorical disagreement, see, in this light, Turkey in the OSCE Minsk Group, characterized them as unpromising.
The OSCE Minsk Group has been dealing with the settlement of the Karabakh conflict since 1992, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the United States and France. Currently, the settlement process is based on the Madrid Principles put forward by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in 2007 and updated in 2009, among other things, providing for the deployment of a peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone.
In this light, the expert assesses the prospects of Moscow's position on Karabakh as unchanged, assigning a solution to the Karabakh problem directly to Armenia and Azerbaijan. At the same time, Nadein-Rayevsky himself considers direct participation in the Stepanakert talks an unconditional necessity. The expert assessed the displacement of the Karabakh participants from the negotiation process to resolve their own destiny as an extremely ineffective concession to Azerbaijan.