Russian, Turkish diplomats discuss Syria, Karabakh, Ukraine — Russian Foreign Ministry
Moscow and Ankara reaffirmed their commitment to further coordination of efforts to strengthen peace and stability in those regions
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Moscow and Ankara, when touching upon the South Caucasus, Ukraine, and Central Asia, reaffirmed their commitment to further coordination of efforts to strengthen peace and stability in those regions.
[For the record, Russia has expended a lot of treasure and no little blood defending the government of Syria while Turkey continues an illegal military presence in the country supporting anti-government rebels, in the process shooting down a Russian military aircraft. Turkey was an active player in last year’s attack on Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and this year’s armed incursion into Armenia by its client regime in Azerbaijan. Russia is obligated by terms of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to defend its fellow member Armenia. Instead it colludes with the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Russia and Turkey supported opposite sides in the Libyan civil war. Erdoğan routinely condemns Russia’s treatment of ethnic Tatars in Crimea, which he demands be taken from Russia, and goes as far back as the Crimean War to denounce Russia for the the plight of Circassians, in both cases motivated by pan-Turkism. Ankara is intensifying threats against Cyprus, a close traditional Russian ally. It is in charge of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force which just completed anti-Russian war games in the Black Sea region. It is going to open the Black Sea wide open to the U.S, and NATO with the Istanbul Canal. And so on ad infinitum.
The Putin regime’s abject subservience to the new Sublime Porte is one of the most appalling developments in the world today.]
Anti-bellum 
Might mother Russia be birthing an uncontrollable snarling tiger state. Will Europe encourage an empire that might block its train routes to China via Moscow? Where was Genghis Kahn most inconvenienced when his armies reached the Mediterranean and Europe? Is Damascus the oldest city on Earth. Who should tell the mayor of Damascus what to do? The new Ottoman empire that Nato thinks it controls may turn out to be a real pain in the neck.
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Another Turkish delight for Pasha Pütin:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3261730-housing-for-crimean-tatars-government-approves-bill-on-agreement-with-turkey.html
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a bill to ratify the agreement with Turkey on the construction of housing for Crimean Tatars, internally displaced persons, participants in the Joint Forces Operation in eastern Ukraine.
“Ukraine and Turkey will cooperate on the construction of housing for the Crimean Tatar people, internally displaced persons, participants in the Joint Forces Operation area. The Government has approved a bill to ratify the agreement,” Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal posted on Telegram.
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How many people does this housing go to?
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Turkey supports Ukraine’s aspirations for obtaining candidate status and further permanent NATO membership, consistently supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and does not recognize annexation of Crimea by Russia.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3261538-turkey-supports-ukraine-in-its-efforts-to-make-progress-on-path-towards-nato.html
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These are all games, as is the CSTO. For example, CSTO member states sold arms to Azerbaijan used against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. For sure, this is a violation of the spirit of the CSTO. And yes, technically, Nagorno-Karabakh is not within Armenia’s borders. But all of these actions are convenient excuses, indicative of state interests overriding written commitments.
Armenia returned to its position as a negotiable entity by others – a default condition when Armenia’s oligarchic interests trump absolute national security. Russia is enticing Turkey into distancing itself from NATO. Turkey is extracting what it can out of its NATO membership while regional interests use its imperial actions. Turkey can become an enemy of regional powers of those who encourage its soft (and hard) power in an arch between Lebanon and Azerbaijan. Turkey’s importing Jihadist fighters into Azerbaijan before and during last autumn’s Second Karabakh War – through NATO-wannabe Georgia – while Israel resupplied Azerbaijan with high-tech weaponry through Georgian airspace is indicative of this big game. It will be interesting to witness regional dynamics when Iran has been so-called neutralized. During this Second Karabakh War, NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg praised Turkey’s quality as a NATO ally.
Kosovo can be carved out of Serbia by NATO forces and encouraged to join NATO, while the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh were denied the continuation of their established self-determination.
What is going on in the borders area near Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia is rather interesting as Azerbaijani soldiers have violated the Armenian border, but neither side’s soldiers are shooting. Instead, they are fist fighting and kicking each other. Azerbaijani land-grab penchant is being used, most probably, to make Armenia’s PM, Pashinyan, seem more incapable of securing Armenia’s borders in the run-up to elections on June 20th. This is all a game on a micro and macro level.
Yerevan, Armenia
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This is a comprehensive, penetrating and insightful analysis, superb in every way. Thanks greatly.
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Reblogged this on Piazza della Carina.
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Thanks again.
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Putin and Lavrov have certainly covered themselves and Russia in slime and shame with their sellout of the Armenians of Artsakh especially and shameful grovelling to the contemptuous Turks – one would think that it was Turkey who was the nuclear superpower not Russia. At the rate it’s going it one day may be, if Erdogan can manage such winning brinkmanship against the likes of Russia and the West without nukes, what will he be able to accomplish with them? It may not be so far off, and both Russia and the West will rue the day they let a second-rate conventional power become a nuclear empire sitting astride key world faultlines. The truly sick West is so angry at Putin blocking its transgender and plunder agenda that it prefers to be co-conspirator to practical perpetuation of the Armenian genocide and reconstitution of the Ottoman menace than work with an at least nominally Christian European state to prevent it while it still can, along with all the other disasters that will predictably follow in train.
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