The phase of “no preconditions” in normalization talks with Turkey has officially ended. The emphasis is on the word officially, since we should know that the day Turkish officials could no longer behave and play by the rules was long overdue. In a recent statement to Turkish television, Erdogan stated that “Azerbaijan has been our red line from the beginning. We will open our doors after the problems with Azerbaijan are resolved.” Does this sound like embracing the esteemed commitment of no preconditions?
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It’s a logical approach Mr Piligian is suggesting.
I hope Armenia is diligently working on increasing its military capability all while ‘pausing’ as suggested in this article. At the end of the day, the Turks (including the Azeri version) will only stop their reckless behavior when Armenia can hurt them militarily and/or economically/politically. The balance of power between Turkey and Armenia must somehow change. How to do this… I would imagine with development of advanced weapons systems within Armenia along with the most up-to-date organization of the Armenian Armed Forces.
Unfortunately West wont sell us advanced weapons system because we are part of CSTO pro russian alliance also we have good relations with lran which is opposite to western policy but this west sell everything to turkey saudi arabia egypt malaysia pakistan even they fund and support kosovo and bosnia where is all ethnic christians got killed and suffered go figure out
A country of less than 3 million developing weapons to hurt it’s neighbors with a combined population and economy 50 times its size? Do you see Armenia achieving this goal in say 5Years? Or 10 or 59 years perhaps.
Tell Iran it’s time to step up and help. Talks of them assisting the Russians in drone tech for Ukraine is occurring. I want to see some teams being sent to Tehran to learn the Iranian drones and come back with some armed drones… we have always been a good neighbor to Iran and I think it’s time for them to show some solidarity. Turkeys economy is going into the trash. They’ll be hesitant for any new conflict, we have to pressure Iran to help. I’m confident with their drones we can change the shift of battle.
Sam Khan,
Armenia should have already “reverse engineered” those tank killer suicide drones, just from the pieces, Make their own, Stamped Made in Hayastan with Love, and have ten thousand hidden away in many places. They could have copied the German V1, V2, rockets, make them out of carbon fiber, cement,
or even metal and had a credible retaliatory strike. But they relied on numbers rather than quality. and on the Russian federation reacting to its defense. That was not forthcoming, a reminder, that Armenia stands alone.
Robert,
I am afraid Armenia is not in a position to increase its military capability sufficiently because Russia is the only source of weapons and because of the war with Ukraine it needs weapons BADLY itself. I am not even talking about the lack of money after devastating defeat in 2020.
Definitely in conflict resolution a pause is a essentiel to cool off adverse parties, avoid repetitious opposition, bring in new thinking and the input. However, in the Armenian/Artsakh/Turkey /Azerbaijan conflict started and lasting over two decades until now – as of the Armenian massacres and the genocide end of 19th cent. – tabled on ongoing destructive and aggressive road maps is totally inapplicable and counter productive. An additional diplomatic game to put Armenians on their knees, neutralizeonce for all their rights, identity, history….
This particular moment in history is the worst time for Armenia to have any sort of conversations with the Turks that may bring some hope for the future. Such expectations are simply doomed at the very start. Armenia is in a weak and vulnerable position. We lost the war, our “allies” turned out that are not allies at all. Rather the opposite. Our international standing is tarnished because of perceived (although not true) close ties with Russia. Our economy and especially the energy sector is almost entirely dependent on our enemies. Our military is plagued with lack of management and technological backwardness. Our economy continues to be dependent on foreign remittances. The list is long, but I will stop here. If this was something that is known only to us and not to our enemies one may say that it is fine. But this is not the case. The question is given all these what can we expect from our negotiating “partners” – remorse, regret, good will or arrogance, aggressiveness and unreal demands. Therefore not pause, but simply Armenia should postpone the negotiations for better times and in more optimistic international setting. The opposite will be suicidal. It is obvious that in such situation Armenia cannot benefit even an iota of such talks. And last but not the least, when it is obvious that whatever talks we have with the Turks it won’t be in our benefit why reward the bastards, especially Erdogan?
İts doesnt make sense what you say instead if lran our ally wants to support us they must declare war on turkey for show solidarity with us while they fight each other we can make deal with US and EU retake our occupied lands from turkey western armenia and eastern armenia currently occupied by lran when forcefully took by persians during 1800s and too all the way fake states syria and lraq firstly we must realize we need neighbour state like assyria and mount liban maronite states,if their interest over persians arabs kurds will try to kill us they do check crusade history in middle east how persians and arabs persecuated and killed armenians assyrians and chaldeans