The opening of the “Zangezur corridor” will create new opportunities for Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Pakistan. Speaker of the Turkish National Grand Assembly, Mustafa Sentop, stated this at the second trilateral meeting of the speakers of the Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Pakistani parliaments in Istanbul, APA’s correspondent in Istanbul reports.

According to Sentop, the peoples of these three countries are linked to each other with close historical and cultural ties.

It is noteworthy that the Turkish legislature speaker managed to talk about the “Zangezur corridor” without mentioning Armenia once.

By Michael Rubin,

Fifteen years ago, a Turkish nationalist shot Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink point-blank in the head, shouting to horrified onlookers in the heart of Istanbul that he killed the “infidel.”

The murder made international headlines and shocked not only Armenians but also liberal Turks. There was a silver lining, though, as the Turkish government sought to change the narrative by addressing its bilateral tensions with Armenia.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan invited his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gül, to a soccer game in Yerevan, and more such exchanges followed. Finally, in October 2009, Armenian and Turkish negotiators agreed on two bilateral protocols that created a roadmap to formalize diplomatic relations, opening the border to end Turkey’s unilateral blockade and setting up a joint committee to address the Armenian Genocide.

Within days, however, optimism turned to defeat. The Turkish parliament refused to ratify the Zurich protocols, absent a greenlight from Azerbaijan. It was a nonsense excuse: Ankara commands Baku, not vice versa. It was also classic Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He feigned diplomacy to avoid accountability for the violence that logically flowed from his nationalist and extremist excesses.

At the same time, Erdogan sought advantage from a lack of relations. The Turkish-Azerbaijani blockade of Armenia forced Armenia to rely on Iran as its economic outlet to the world. Partisans then pointed to these ties as reasons to ally with Turkey and Azerbaijan over Armenia. In reality, this policy was like an arsonist setting his neighbor’s house on fire next door and then complaining about the smoke. Nevertheless, in Washington, such tactics work, both because the Turkey cadre at the State Department far outnumbers employees assigned to manage the relations of other regional countries and because Azerbaijan and Turkey’s embassies have traditionally been more active than Armenia’s.

History repeats. As Turkey today faces triple-digit inflation and looming bankruptcy, Erdogan again signals a willingness to bury hatchets and talk. Whereas he once berated Israeli President and Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres as a murderer, he now welcomes his Israeli counterpart to Ankara. And whereas he once promised he would stop at nothing to hold Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) accountable for the murder of Saudi journalist and former intelligence operative Jamal Khashoggi, he welcomed MBS to Ankara last month after ordering the court case against him dropped. That Riyadh played hardball with Erdogan and forced his retreat raises questions about why Washington and Brussels always opt for a softer approach and then wonder why it never works.

Now, it is Armenia’s turn to be the subject of Turkey’s diplomatic turn. Almost two years ago, Azerbaijan, along with Turkish Special Forces and Israeli drones, launched a surprise attack on Artsakh, the Armenian-populated republic in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region whose status they had pledged to resolve diplomatically. That the attack occurred on the 100^th anniversary of the Ottoman assault on the Armenian-populated region was no coincidence. Erdogan repeatedly framed the attack in religious terms as a jihad against Christians.

Today, however, Turkey signals renewed interest in negotiating with Armenia. On July 1, Turkey agreed to open the border for cargo and non-Armenian, non-Turkish passport holders. Erdogan and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke directly as a result. While Turkish officials said they were coordinating with their Azerbaijani counterparts, Baku has been generally cool to Turkey’s diplomatic moves. The looming question now is whether Turkey truly wants to normalize ties with Armenia or, conversely, just wants to appear moderate.

There are ways to find out.

Rather than meet in Austria or other third countries, Turkey and Armenia can resume their talks in Ankara and Yerevan. Turkey signals willingness. Should Turkey be sincere, Turkish negotiators should pay their respects at the Armenian Genocide Memorial. They can also signal that they support a fair solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute by encouraging Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to resolve it rather than supporting his attempts to eliminate the Armenian population and erase their cultural heritage. The elimination of cultural heritage and restraint from ethnic cleansing should not be something over which Turkey should seek to bargain. Indeed, there is hypocrisy about Erdogan complaining about the treatment of Muslims while presiding over the elimination of Christian presence in Turkey, Azerbaijan, and even northern Syria.

It is in the interest of all parties to resolve disputes in the South Caucasus diplomatically. To do otherwise only benefits Russia and Iran. If the State Department wants to show diplomacy to be back, however, it can play a role. First, rather than reward Ankara for signaling conciliation, it should instead judge Turkey on the substance of its actions. Never again should Turkey reap the benefits of a policy it has no intention to implement. Second, it should appoint someone with ambassadorial rank to succeed U.S. Minsk Group Co-Chair Andrew Schofer, who has rotated into a new assignment. That the French and Russian co-chairs were ambassadors, but Schofer was a self-inflicted wound to U.S. influence. Third, maximalist approaches will never bring peace. Only cultural and political autonomy will. Artsakh is not Donetsk; it is not an artificial creation. Instead, it predates and has survived Ottoman, Soviet, and Azerbaijani attempts to erase it. It is time to embrace the Kosovo model.

Expert Biography – Now a 1945 Contributing Editor, Dr. Michael Rubin is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Dr. Rubin is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of several books exploring diplomacy, Iranian history, Arab culture, Kurdish studies, and Shi’ite politics, including “Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East?” (AEI Press, 2019); “Kurdistan Rising” (AEI Press, 2016); “Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes” (Encounter Books, 2014); and “Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos” (Palgrave, 2005). You can follow him on Twitter: @mrubin1971.

Written By Michael Rubin

Now a 1945 Contributing Editor, Dr. Michael Rubin is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Dr. Rubin is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of several books exploring diplomacy, Iranian history, Arab culture, Kurdish studies, and Shi’ite politics, including “Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East?” (AEI Press, 2019); “Kurdistan Rising” (AEI Press, 2016); “Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes” (Encounter Books, 2014); and “Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos” (Palgrave, 2005).

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister Bagrat Badalyan bought a house together with his wife in the city of Marysville, United States of America.

“Hetk” studied the official’s declaration, according to which the transaction took place in May 2021, and the value of the real estate was 584 thousand 950 USD. Bagrat Badalyan’s income increased especially during the years when he held government positions. In particular, he owns 88.1% of the “Channakhits Institute” company. This company actively participates in public procurement, especially in the field of road construction. After Bagrat Badalyan became a shareholder of “Road Institute” LLC on April 16, 2020, state bodies and communities signed a state purchase contract with the company for a total of 1 billion 79 million 465 thousand drams.

For comparison, let’s note that before Bagrat Badalyan became a shareholder in the company, from January 1, 2019 to April 15, 2020, only one state purchase contract was signed with the “Road Project Institute” at a contract price of 431 thousand drams. And in 2018, 3 contracts with a total price of 11 million 949 thousand drams. Bagrat Badalyan’s career in high positions started after the change of power in 2018. In June 2018, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies, and a year later, Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. In February 2020, he was appointed an advisor to the then Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan, and months later, the head of Tigran Avinyan’s office. In August 2021, Bagrat Badalyan was appointed adviser to the SRC president, and two months later, deputy chief of staff of the prime minister. The full investigation is on the source website. CivilNet publications regarding Bagrat Badalyan are below:

With deep sorrow, we offer our condolences to the family, relatives and friends of producer Armen Grigoryan on his untimely, tragic death.

We send our words of consolation and support to everyone.

This death is a great loss for all patriotic Armenians.

May the memory be blessed by justice.

Respected compatriots.

On July 15, the famous producer Armen Grigoryan, who was known to the public as a dissident and a person with a tough stance towards the current authorities, “died suddenly” in the seat of the “Center” court of the 1st instance of the city of Yerevan. Armen Grigoryan was arrested in on May 17 on charges of allegedly promoting national, racial and religious discrimination. Violating the presumption of innocence, the National Security Service subjected him to inhuman cruelty of arrest. A citizen who did not show any resistance was detained as a person who committed a particularly serious crime. The humiliating footage of his arrest was shared on the Internet. It is not difficult to imagine what mental and physical torture A. was subjected to. During the 2 months Grigoryan was in custody. In our deep conviction, A. Grigoryan is another victim of the arbitrariness of these nation-destructive authorities. The fact that A. Grigoryan was arrested on May 17, 2022 for the statements he made more than 1 year ago. If what he said contained elements of crime, why was he arrested a year later?

We believe his death was the result of a premeditated act, which is essentially murder. Killing does not have to be by violent physical action. According to Article 450 of the new Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, causing death by causing severe physical and mental suffering is also murder.

Armen Grigoryan is another victim, that is our belief.

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Andranik Tevanyan, deputy of the NA faction “Armenia” wrote on his Facebook page: “Armen Grigoryan died in the courtroom, but that was the visible part.

Actually, Armen’s was a political murder. He is another victim of Nikol Pashinyan’s rule. Armen Grigoryan was killed and at the same time he killed himself. He killed the so-called civil society, the numerous and diverse mass representing human rights defenders. If something like this had happened before and a detainee had died in the courtroom within the framework of a case with obvious political implications, the so-called pro-Western (actually pro-Turkish) fighters would have raised a howl and breastfed (the story of the “bread bringer” is a witness: he delivered food while killing the policemen). on the trees”). Western structures and embassies would make announcement after announcement. The agency press would make a fuss. Nothing like that happened now. Read also

By Naira Vanyan

Since the political field in the first person of the country speaks in slang and that linguistic thinking is very consistent with the mentality of the current government and the situation of the country, this publication will be a little seasoned with that unacceptable style.

Today, the whole of Armenia is in a state of “backlash”, starting from the first person. Pashinyan, who said, “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s the end of it,” has “set the back”. Pashinyan, who used to “set himself on fire” for a few hundred square meters of Artsakh lands and did not give Serzh Sargsyan a day or a day, today is not only fighting with the Azerbaijanis and Erdogan, but after giving 75 percent of Artsakh to Azerbaijan, he considers not only the rest of Artsakh as Azeri, but also: Many areas of RA. In short, Pashinyan, who is “in the saddle” is taking the whole of Armenia with him “in the saddle” to the abyss.

The once-strong opposition players were “put on the back”, Edmon Marukyan, who ate a good meal in the National Assembly, Tsarukyan, who ate “self-loathing”, Onik Gasparyan, the head of the National Security Agency, with his subordinates and military colleagues, who stood up like a smart student in front of him a day after demanding Pashinyan’s resignation. :

The fact that Pashinyan appoints to the most important positions of the country, at best, mediocre people, and in general, people with zero professional value, is not new. If a former teacher and a young man who served ingloriously during military service can be the Minister of Defense, then the appointment of Edward Asryan as the head of the General Staff is not so terrible. This fits well into the program of dismantling the army, isolating the professionals from the army and filling it with mediocrity. Asryan was born in Azokh village of Hadrut, good or bad, he had a military career. He is also one of the obscure generals of the war of defeat. he was promoted to general after the defeat of the 44-day war. Although in no country do they boast such titles after losing a war. With the help of experts, with his professional abilities, Asryan does not fit the position of head of the General Directorate. Anyway, we have not been surprised by Pashinyan’s appointments for a long time,…
Asryan was appointed deputy chief of the Armed Forces General Staff last May, then was released from that position in September.

According to press publications, his 10-minute conversation with Seyran Ohanyan, former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, head of the Hayastan faction, in the corridor, as well as Asryan’s addressing Seyran Ohanyan as Sir General, played a role in his release. Andranik Kocharyan, the chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee, did not like this. Let’s remind that on August 18, at the proposal of the “Armenia” faction, a closed meeting with the representatives of the RA Armed Forces was held in the RA NA, in which Asryan participated.

The surprising thing about Asryan, the head of the General Staff, is that this man demanded Pashinyan’s resignation a year and a half ago, he considered that “the Armenian Prime Minister and the government are no longer able to make adequate decisions for the Armenian people in this critical and fatal situation.” For a long time, the RA armed forces patiently tolerated the “attacks” aimed at discrediting the armed forces by the current government, but everything has its limits. The ineffective management of the current authorities and serious mistakes in foreign policy have brought the country to the brink of destruction.” In fact, Asryan agreed to work with the government that brought the country to the brink of destruction. This means that he agreed to continue destroying the country hand in hand with Pashinyan. In short, Asryan also “put his ass”. And what is “the zadni setter”?

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Vakhtang Siradeghyan,

The death of Armen Grigoryan once again revealed the deep kinship between the current government and the “crooked pole”. At first glance, it may not seem so. Or the latter are waging a “self-sacrificing” fight against Nikol Pashinyan. And still no one has canceled the principle “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.

But now and then, both the government and the representatives of the “religious” community are happy with the death of a real patriot. And it doesn’t matter what level and what level of influence they are representatives. The important thing is that Armen returned to his homeland from his peaceful Russian environment and immediately and irreversibly entered into a fight against the government. And the government punished Armen, first depriving him of his freedom and then his life. The fact that Armen’s death is a reason for joy for the representatives of the “Tsarkan” community is also irrelevant, because the latter had pro-Russian views. In fact, it was more important than the fact that, according to Armen, by fighting against Nikol, he was fighting for the sake of the happy future of our homeland. And brings that future closer with his public speaking activity.

If we continue to analyze the words of those guided by the above-mentioned logic, we will come to the conclusion that the representatives of the “deviant” community share the Pashinyan position of dividing our society. Which is clearly present in the social media and other posts or verbal speech of the “worship” representatives. So, considering the issue from either side, their affinity with the current government is clearly demonstrated. As you can see, there is no mention of the reaction of the Nicolaitan public here. Because Nikol’s government or the Nikolistic society. those phenomena are the same thing, naturally, that bad thing. If Nikol is evil, and there is no other word to describe the leader who brought so much evil to our people, then what else should his worshipers be?

Let’s go back, as the famous movie says, “to our sheep”. In other words, to the issue of kinship between Nikol’s government and the “religious” community. If people like the representatives of the government are happy with Armen’s murder, then what kind of character can be given to such people? I am a person over sixty and I can only rejoice at the death of our neighbors to the east or west. Because they killed or organized the slaughter of our children. But I have never rejoiced at the death of any Nicolaitan or Nicolaitane, let alone the death of any “servant”. I will not rejoice even at the death of a person considered evil, he should be deprived of his position and spend the rest of his life not in the distant and expensive drawing rooms of the West, but in a place not so far from where he lives today.

P.S. By the way, the expression about returning to the “sheep” originates from a medieval (late 15th century) folk farce depicting a legal dispute between a shepherd and a cloth merchant who accused him of stealing sheep. During the trial, passing from the pastor to his lawyer, the cloth merchant demands payment of the amount of the goods bought on credit. In an attempt to prevent a new story and a new controversy from emerging, the judge suggests returning to the original subject of the dispute: sheep theft.

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Aram Ter Harutyunyan – 2 months

Mika Badalyan – 2

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Narek Mantashyan – 7 months

Ara Mkrtchyan – 7 months