Mikhail Alexandrov: Turkey must not depend on Azerbaijan

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Azerbaijan continues with its anti-rapprochement campaign, Head of Caucasus Department at CIS States Institute, Mikhail Alexandrov told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, commenting on Azeri Parliament's intention to discuss RA-Turkish Protocols. According to him, Azeri policy aimed to impose a blockade on Armenia so that the latter ceded NKR. In case of RA-Turkish rapprochement Baku will have to compromise on the issue. "To stop RA-Turkish protocols' ratification process, Azerbaijan might even address Turkish parliament," Mikhail Alexandrov noted, adding that Ankara will gain nothing by supporting Baku.



He also commented the information on Azeri and Turkish Diaspora's unification in order to hamper protocols' ratification. "The Azeri seem to be unaware of their true origin; at one moment they consider themselves Caucasian Albanians' descendants, at another they're descended from Turks."



Alexandrov also noted that Turkey must not depend on Azerbaijan. "It's time for Ankara to act in accordance with it's own interests, instead of Azerbaijan's," Mikhail Alexandrov said.