Azerbaijan to back Turkey in Israeli-Turkish conflict

October 1, 2011 – 14:25 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The Turkish-Israeli conflict is explained by
Turkey’s aspiration to expand its influence over the countries once a
part of the Ottoman Empire, according to an Armenian expert.

`Turkey is not an ordinary country. Being militaristic and aggressive,
it now tries to make use of the weakened Arab world,’ Levon Shirinyan
told a news conference in Yerevan.

As to Azerbaijan, he said, it’s a country that originated as a result
of a bargain between Turkey and Soviet Russia. `Azerbaijan is a Turkic
state which forms a kind of confederation together with Turkey and
Northern Cyprus. It can’t but support Turkey or fall under Russia’s
influence again, thus displeasing the United States,’ the expert said.