Orientalist Artak Avetisyan expressed an opinion in the interview with Aravot.am that each side is trying to use the murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara for its own interests to get the maximum. “Russia, certainly, will wait for the Turkish concessions while the Turks have already adopted this stance. The statement issued by the mayor of Ankara who is considered one of the closest persons of the president, and also already directed interpretations by the president’s entourage and the morning media that the authors of the murder are some marginal forces or supporters of Fethullah Gülen or some extremists…
Turks will try to benefit from this. The European partners were an extra reason to say, look, the anti-terror security is not so high level, new measures are required, new investments in the European family and new boosters. This is one positive thing for Turkey. Photo from Artak Avetisyan’s Facebook page. Secondly, currently it is the year of 1937 inside the Turkey, there are tens of thousands of arrested. This is another reason to direct the murderer and to lead the vector in the sense that everything that is happening inside Turkey, all these domestic fermentations are directed against prevention of this kind of extremist phenomena. In other words, this is also a message to make the international community clear that this is a special action which must be prevented.
Do you remember when there were explosions, in other words, all this can easily fit in this axis? The terrorist was easily deactivated but the terrorist was standing so obviously that no intervention required to deactivate him professionally. They could have left him a witness, in brackets, to understand who he was and why he did it even if he was directed and prepared by somewhere, he might be programmed by the forces of other countries and an action planned by the president. If they had persuaded the young man that he will be alive and released in some way but they ended with the same scenario, at this moment, they have murdered Ambassador and a killed terrorist who was deactivated during the special operation.
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There are no witnesses to be able to understand. Now, more thousands of people can be arrested by various methods known in Turkey, by their typical handwriting, and all these people will confess that it is Gülen’s deed. In other words, a convenient and very interesting moment turned out in Turkey.”
Artak Avetisyan is sure that the ambassador’s murder will not affect the Russian-Turkish relations. “The ambassador’s murder is not a threat to the Russian-Turkish relations, the Kremlin’s reaction is too quiet and adequate. I would not be surprised if years later, the fact that this could be a joint Russian-Turkish event will creep out, both to win dividends for them and the other because the Kremlin’s reaction is somewhat strangely quiet. The Ambassador was presented with an award or medal but the first reaction that happened after downing the Russian aircraft by the hysteria of Russian media, the known Solovyovs, others, this time, it is all measured and shaped. Currently, I am following the Russian news, it is too passive response, I have the impression that Moldova’s ambassador is shot to death rather than the Russian Ambassador. In other words, Russia’s response apparently should not be so,” says the Orientalist. According to him, we, Armenians, should not be happy or sad by this reality as there is nothing to gain dividends.
Nune AREVSHATYAN
