The negotiations between Yerevan and Baku address the “technicalities of Artsakh’s handover” to Azerbaijan, political analyst Suren Sargsyan said on Friday, referring to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s latest remarks.

“It’s clear that the Armenian-Azerbaijani talks focus on the technicalities of Artsakh’s surrender, isn’t it?” he wrote on Facebook.

Earlier on Thursday, Lavrov suggested that the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991, which the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders confirmed their commitment to in a joint statement following their talks hosted by European Council President Charles Michel in Prague on October 6, shows that “the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast was clearly part of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic.”

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev reiterated their commitment to it in another joint statement issued after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi in late October.

“When they [the Armenian and Azeri leaders] came to Sochi, they brought from Prague a document in which they said they want to sign a peace treaty based on the UN Charter and the 1991Alma-Ata Declaration,” Lavrov said.

“The Alma-Ata Declaration states that all union republics form the Union of Independent States and confirms the inviolability of borders between the former union countries of the USSR. In other words, at that time, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast was clearly part of the Azerbaijani SSR. This was confirmed by Azerbaijan, Armenia, France, and Mr. Michel without any reservations, which determines how to address the issue of Karabakh’s status,” he stated.

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By Michael Rubin

The Cost of Western Silence in the Face of Turkish False Flag Terrorism: On November 13, 2022, a small bomb shook a pedestrian mall in central Istanbul. Within a day, Turkish officials suggested they had their suspect.

Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian woman whom Turkish authorities alleged took her orders from Syrian Kurds in Kobane. They paraded her before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s court media in a “New York” sweatshirt. Lest Turks not get the message, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu suggested the United States was complicit.

There is actually no proof beyond Turkish insistence that Albashir has connection with Syrian Kurds; indeed, the evidence linking her to the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army is stronger. Rather, it seems Erdogan is using the bombing as a pretext to carry out a preplanned operation to undermine the democratic Kurdish experiment in northeastern Syria. In the wake of the Istanbul attack, Turkish warplanes have repeatedly struck targets in Syria’s Kurdish zone, killing not only political officials but also numerous other civilians as well.

The mantra that the Syrian Democratic Forces are, by nature of their evolution from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a terrorist group, is not justification for Turkey’s actions for two reasons. First, the PKK has evolvedover the years, much like Turkey itself. Today, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey is unrecognizable from what Turkey was two decades ago. The same holds true with the PKK, a group that once briefly held me at gunpoint while I was a Pentagon official in Iraqi Kurdistan. Politically, intellectually, and culturally, it is not the same organization. Second, while the State Department operates on auto-drive and some think tank analysts seek to be more Turkish than many Turks in their ostracization of the PKK, it is useful to remember that Turgut Özal, who dominated Turkey from 1983 until 1993, was willing to make peace with the group. Prior to his 1993 death, he had sent out feelers to PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and appeared ready to negotiate an end to the Kurdish insurgency.

The White House and many European diplomats may believe they can turn a blind eye to Turkey’s ongoing assault on northern Syria. After all, the Kurds are not a state and so do not have a seat at the diplomatic table. Out of sight, out of mind. The problem with such logic is not only its moral perversity. Rather, whether accusing environmentalists of being part of a vast terror conspiracy after the Gezi Park protests, or exaggerating Gülenist complicity in the 2016 abortive coup or seeking a pretext to attack Iraq or Syria, false accusations against enemies as a pretext for police or military action have become commonplace for Turkey. The reason is simple: Erdogan has concluded such tactics work.

This brings us to Greece. Over the decades, Turkey has repeatedly accused Greece of terrorism. As Erdogan saber-rattles against his NATO neighbor as he seeks to redraw the Aegean map and expand Turkey’s Exclusive Economic Zone, he will need a pretext for military action. If Europe allows Erdogan to get away with a false accusation against Syrian Kurds in order to justify a Turkish land grab south of his border, it is not farfetched to consider another scenario leading to a land grab west of the border: a bomb goes off in Izmir, Bodrum, or Marmaris. A day later, Soylu will parade a suspect in an “Athens” sweatshirt, claiming that he or she confessed to acting on the orders of Greek nationalists. Europe might then issue its denials, but Erdogan will not care: He has become too accustomed to the West accepting Turkish standards of evidence or countries like Swedenhumiliating themselves to please him.

This will be a miscalculation on his part—European fortitude is stronger than Sweden’s 2022 Stockholm syndrome might suggest. Wars often start because of such miscalculations, however. That is why clarity is so important. Stopping Turkish aggression against Kurds today can prevent a deadly conflict with Greece as Turkey’s elections approach.

It is time to stand up to Erdogan, stop funding and equipping Turkey’s military and, indeed, raise the cost should Turkey seek to operate outside its borders.

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).

Source: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/11/could-turkey-use-a-false-flag-attack-to-start-a-war-with-greece/

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All this information comes from Turkey none from Armenia

At the beginning of this month, “a meeting of the technical delegations of Armenia and Turkey took place at the border”, stated the press spokesman of the Turkish president, Ibrahim Kalin. Emphasizing that the settlement of Armenian-Turkish relations is progressing positively,

he said on the air of the local Turkish TV station that the opening of borders for citizens of third countries and the granting of diplomatic passports will most likely be implemented in the near future. Official Yerevan did not report this meeting.

The spokesperson of the Turkish president also noted that the process between Armenia and Azerbaijan should proceed in a healthy way in order to create a basis for peace and stability in the South Caucasus. Ruben Rubinyan and Serdar Kilic, the special representatives appointed by the parties in the negotiations for the settlement of Armenian-Turkish relations, have had four official meetings so far: the first in Moscow, the others in Vienna. At their last meeting, in the summer, the parties agreed to partially open the Armenian-Turkish border for citizens of third countries and to start direct air cargo transportation. On October 6, the leaders of the two neighboring countries met in Prague for the first time in the past 13 years.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlucht Cavusoglu declared the strategic importance of the so-called “Zangazur corridor” for the trade between the Middle East and the Caucasus, Asia and Europe, he said at the opening of a trilateral meeting of the Ministers of Transport and Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan in Aktau, Anadolu news agency reported.

According to him, “the new realities of the South Caucasus are also a contribution to long-term cargo transportation mechanisms. He noted the opening of two new airports, in the territories that came under Azerbaijani control as a result of the aggression against Artsakh in 2020, which “will connect the Karabakh economic region with the world.”

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Vakhtang Siradeghyan,

Even if we get rid of the futile idea of ​​getting rid of the “Artsakh burden”, we can consider Nikol Pashinyan’s case to be a failure to turn the 29,800 sq/km area into a “bastion of democracy” or “a member of the elite club of democracies”.

Nikolay’s promise to ensure the security of the territory of RA itself has also failed. Especially in terms of security, in 30 years of independence, our country has not had the sad picture it is in after the “velvet” coup of street leader Nikol.
The only phenomenon that can be considered as ongoing, and highly flawed, is the legal process of confiscating illegal property from the hands of the former.

And even in case of success, the amount of several tens of millions of dollars to be received can serve only for the glory of the person holding the position of the RA Prime Minister. Because it is not a big amount even from the point of view of the state budget of Armenia (5 billion dollars at today’s exchange rate). And it’s not even serious money in terms of investing to ensure economic growth. It was not for nothing that after being appointed prime minister in 2018, Nikol Pashinyan demanded serious money from Western countries, boasting that he would have several tens of millions of dollars, just shaking the pockets of his predecessors.

The idea of ​​creating a knowledge-based and demonopolized economy has also failed. It was called an economic revolution. As I understand it, apart from the importation of bananas, the elimination of the monopoly of which has become a very personal matter for him, other areas have not changed. Monopoly importers or locals in other sectors have been transformed from the former to the new. And they survive well under the wing of the current government. As for the idea of ​​creating a knowledge-based economy, as far as I know, it has not gone beyond creating one or two automated or so-called smart barns. Not to mention more serious projects. Yes, having one more own satellite (which, according to journalist N. Khokhikyan, Nikol destroyed without understanding its significance) was transformed into managing it on a rental basis. And it was used again for Pashinyan’s boasting. Can you imagine rejecting the idea of ​​owning your own as a prime minister, and when life forced you to accept its necessity, to rent someone else’s and make it a basis for boasting?

Pashinyan’s promise to form a government of the worthy or intelligent (meritocracy) has been defeated. This type of government was presented by him as a panacea to cure all the negative phenomena that arose and were confirmed in the country during the previous era. It could indeed become such if implemented, for which a suitable team with political will and management ability was needed.

But there was neither the first nor the other. Instead of the promised meritocracy, a provincial-Asian (I would say even Ghetzian) type of administration with a western veil was introduced in Armenia. In all sectors and levels of the state system. In local self-governing bodies (councils), it existed for a long time, and there was no need to invent a bicycle with square wheels. If a history teacher turns into the defense minister of a state at war, beyond that the government cannot be anti-meritocratic. There is no point in citing other examples.

By the way, under the former presidents, and especially the third president of RA, Serzh Sargsyan, whom we almost rejected as a nation and had to apologize to as a nation (I personally did this), the state system was slowly replenished with at least intelligent specialists. In the next stage, it would be the turn of the deserving – in general, such is the logic of historical development. However, after the “velvet” coup of 2018 with the help of the West, that process was abruptly interrupted. And instead of those worthy of the next phase, we got, as it was said, a Greek and Asian (in a bad sense) administration with a western veil, a phase lasting four and a half years already.

HG. The only thing he is good at is promoting himself and his power through word of mouth or events. And among the semi-literate part of society.

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Who is the Man?

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Turkish media were triggered by the statements made by the head of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (GEETHA), General Konstantinos Floros, which were said to mark Monday’s Armed Forces Day celebration.

General Floros pointed out that Greece wishes and works for peace, but “whoever makes the fatal mistake of ‘coming’, should know in advance that they will find in front of them a new Marathon, a new Salamis and a new 731.”

“I am sure that the Greek Arms will be glorified once more, giving the good fight, as so many times in the past,” he added.

Turkish media took General Floros’ clear warning as a “provocation” and a “threat”, describing it as “scandalous” and linking it to recent military operations of the Turkish armed forces in the north of Syria and Iraq.

“Operation Claw-Sword, launched by the Turkish Armed Forces, caused panic in Greece. Scandalous threats against Turkey were made by the Chief of the General Staff of Greece, General Konstantinos Floros. Floros also mentioned a war thousands of years ago,” commented the Sabah newspaper under the title “Challenges Turkey: Anyone who makes the fatal mistake is ‘to come’.”

“The A/GEETHA of Greece has threatened Turkey” is the title of the Sözcü newspaper article. “While Turkey was carrying out air operations against Syria and Iraq, the Chief of the General Staff of Greece, General Konstantinos Floros, threatened Turkey with his statements,” the article said.

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