Turkey stepped up its efforts in the struggle for regional leadership because of the weakness of Egypt. According to the Egyptian opposition, Turkey and Iran make use of the weakness of the Arab world to conquer the whole region with the help of Islam. In the opinion of Mustafa Bakri, editor-in-chief of the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al Osboa, Iran wants the entire region to be Shia, and Turkey's ambitions go even further. "Sooner or later Iraq will become a Kurdistan, so we can only hope for the Arab unity. We adhere to the covenants of President Nasser. This primarily refers to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Gamal Abdel Nasser used to say: What was taken by force, can be returned only by force," stressed Bakri.

The week in Armenia started with the commemoration of the victims of Spitak earthquake, which had claimed more than 25 thousand lives back in 1988. In connection with the 21st anniversary of the earthquake, top executives of the country visited the disaster area. However, in the political sense, all the attention of both the political establishment and the Armenian community was focused on the forthcoming meeting between the U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan.