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Under the above heading, Eurasia Daily published an article about the growing role that Turkey is playing on Russia’s Caucasian side, and the threat that the growing Turkish influence poses to Russian national security.
The article reads: After the war in Nagorny Karabakh, Turkey’s influence began to increase in the southern Caucasus, and the conflict over the Caucasus entered a new phase, according to what Professor of Historical Sciences, in the Department of History, Law and Human Sciences of the North Caucasus Institute, Farman Kuliyev said, commenting on the reality The new geopolitical in the Caucasus.
As Kuliev noted, in late 2020 – early 2021, while Biden and Trump were fighting the White House in the United States, and Europe closed its borders in the face of Covid-19, we all witnessed a completely new reality in the South Caucasus. And this reality, according to Kuliyev, arose in the course of the Karabakh conflict and “thanks to a large extent to the Turkish Bayraktar drones and the mountain special forces that stormed Shusha, and to a degree directly to the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who was broadcasting to different audiences in three languages, outperforming Over the entire Armenian media empire.
Kuliyev said: “Turkey, in the region, depends on more active participation in the conflict resolution processes, and is interested in implementing economic projects there, and in order to ensure the security of these projects, it must have a military presence in the region.”
Thus, Kuliyev concludes, the war in Nagorny Karabakh is leading to an increase in Turkey’s influence in the southern Caucasus. Thus, the conflict over the Caucasus enters a new phase.
He warned, “The strengthening of Turkey’s presence in this region is in no way compatible with Russia’s national interests. Therefore, Russia today must take into account the new realities and implement a policy to protect national security and national interests.”
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