Rouben Safrastyan: "Turkey wants to eliminate Syria as a geopolitical factor"

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 15, ARMENPRESS. It will be very beneficial for Turkey, if Syria stops its existence as a geopolitical factor, but this can be reached only via foreign interference, as armed militants and weaponry. Director of Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Rouben Safrastyan announced this in a conversation with "Armenpress". Director of Institute of Oriental Studies said: "As recent developments show this can be achieved by foreign military aggression. In fact, thus Turkey finds a political solution as well, as there are Kurds all along the Syrian border, that are very serious in pursuit of the autonomy or even independence during last months, what means Turkey will have to face Kurdish independent state in his borders with Syria and Iraq". Second issue springs out of the Turkish-Syrian relations referring to entire Turkish policy. Via this aggression Turkey finds solution not only to his problems, but those of the West and USA, as they all knew that it is impossible to get rid of Bashar Assad without foreign power; therefore Turkey takes the role of that foreign power.

In this respect present state of the Syrian-Armenians is rather disturbing. In Safrastyan’s opinion Syrian-Armenians and particularly Armenians from Aleppo are representatives of a generation that suffered the Genocide and in frames of these all Turkey’s desire to damage Armenians as well is apparent.

Clashes between rebels and authorities in Syria caused the death of more than 30,000 men. Syrian government blames Turkey for arming rebels with weaponry.