he governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia have traded accusations of responsibility over border clashes that have claimed the lives of 71 Azerbaijani and 100 Armenian soldiers at the Karabakh border area since September 12, 2022.
Personally, I perceive the statement of Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Colonel General Onik Gasparyan, demanding that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign as the military’s intervention in politics and a political démarche, but not as a military takeover or even the sign of a readiness to take full responsibility for the situation in the country.
The demands did not stop there: on April 6, 1945, the letters sent to Stalin by the Armenian National Committee in New York containing territorial demands from Turkey were made public by the official Soviet news agency TASS.
Since then, Armenian politics have been divided and polarized between rapprochement with Western countries and reliance on Russia to resolve the Karabakh issue.
ince 2020, following the liberation of Karabakh from nearly three decades of Armenian occupation, the region has yet to establish a stable governance structure.
What does the GEO joint satellite cooperation between Turkey and Argentina project demonstrate? Granted, the relationship between the two countries in political terms was –and still is – not optimal, with ups and downs mainly due to an Armenian diaspora lobbying against Turkey and blocking Argentina from developing relations further, and the bilateral relationship lacking an important commercial exchange.
While the Biden administration is keen on greenlighting the defense sale, some congress members oppose it, primarily because they have close ties with anti-Turkey lobby groups, mainly Greek and Armenian.
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Fruits of lobbying
Greece’s initiatives in Alexandroupolis are supported by the Greek, Armenian, and Jewish lobbies in the United States.
Finally, the ongoing “Armenia-Turkey Normalization Process” can help ease the bilateral relations with countries with significant Armenian communities such as Argentina and Uruguay.
For instance, after the second Karabakh War which resulted in Azerbaijan’s victory, the Armenian military led by the chief of general staff published an ultimatum and called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign.
Rocket attacks by the Armenian army against the cities of Ganja and Fuzuli, which were far from the conflict zone and caused the death of Azerbaijani civilians, were brought to the agenda of the West.
he Azeri crushing military defeat of (pro)Armenian forces in the Second Karabakh War (September 27–November 9, 2020) resulted in Turkey’s surging popularity not only in Azerbaijan but also across the entire Turkic-speaking world.