... the Kremlin has tried to come up with what Fenenko describes as “a balanced partnership” — “maintaining the collaborative relations with Armenia” and “a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.” However, given Turkey’s political stakes in Azerbaijan and the sharp decline in Moscow-Ankara relations resulting from Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet near the Syrian border last year, the Kremlin’s attempts to straddle between Yerevan and Baku might ...
... international media with full titles and affiliations, something that they were previously denied of.
To many, this raised hopes for a re-launch of peace process in its initial setting, with the participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Russia the dealmaker, and Turkey the dealbreaker
Some authors however suggest that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey, whose eternal hug with Aliyev in Ankara weeks before had become a source of inspiration in social media, could have been behind encouraging Aliyev ...
... following Russia’s cancellation of South Stream which became a casualty of Russia-Ukrainian conflict and faced high opposition from the EU with regard to its anti-monopoly laws. The original plan for landfall in the EU (Bulgaria) will now occur in Turkey, while the distribution hub for Europe will be located at the border of Turkey and Greece. Being a strategically important transit point for Russian gas going to Europe and bypassing Ukraine, Turkey tries to increase its bargaining power and engages ...
... Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (
MIRNaS
), the
RAS Institute of Oriental Studies
, and the Russian International Affairs Council.
The meeting was attended by experts, journalists, civil society leaders of Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey, who discussed international terrorism, security in the Middle East and Eurasia, coupling Eurasian integration projects, and the role of scientific and educational cooperation in promoting multilateral interaction among Eurasian states.
The Russian ...
... unresolved. My personal guess is that a Russian – Saudi agreement on the future of the Middle East is more likely to be achieved in a multilateral format than in the framework of the bilateral relationship.
Regarding recent events between Russia and Turkey impinging on the cordial bilateral trade ties and economic cooperation, how do you predict the future of Russia-Turkey relations?
I would argue that the crisis between our two countries had been ripening for a long time, and the SU-24 grounding ...
... clear-cut
policy
in the Syria conflict, at least since the completion of the Tehran nuclear deal when the prospect of a peripheral war against Iran moved to the backburner. As a result, the United States virtually franchised Syria to its regional allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia whose views on Syria hardly coincide with U.S. national interests. No wonder, the U.S. positions in the Middle East have been shattered, as well as the allies’ faith in the American leadership. Even the habitually supportive ...
... on PKK’s military camps in Northern Iraq, acknowledging the de facto responsibility of the Kurdish rebels in the suicide bombing.
The TAK has been reportedly created by the PKK a decade ago, and has been tasked to carry out attacks in Western Turkey, outside of PKK’s usual area of operation. While the PKK generally targets Turkish military objectives in which civilian casualties are supposedly low, the TAK on the contrary attacks civilian places and objectives in order to get the maximum ...
... countries that make these statements. Syria is not Bahrain or Yemen. The war in Syria is fraught with direct confrontation with Iran and Russia. I think the Saudis are not ready for a large-scale ground operation - either politically or technically. As for Turkey, Erdogan is not crazy either. He does not want to get involved into the war in Syria. It appears that Turkey is not planning large-scale operations in the Syrian territory.
Interviewed by Nina Leontieva
Source:
Pravda.com
Despite the complexity of regional dynamics, Turkey and Azerbaijan have succeeded to intensely improve their relations throughout the last quarter of century. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the regions Turkey discovered after a long period of time was the Caucasus, alongside ...
... International Affairs Council and the Turkish International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (
MIRNaS
).
The event was attended by RIAC Program Director
Ivan Timofeev
; MIRNaS Director General
Arif Asalyoglu
; former Foreign Minister of Turkey Yasar Yakis;
Vitaly Naumkin
, Director of the RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, and
Pyotr Stegny
, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, both RIAC members; leading Turkish and Russian experts, researchers, representatives ...
