Türkiye is active in international affairs and offers its mediation in a number of conflicts, however in the resolution of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, Türkiye supports Baku.

Türkiye is forcing Armenia to accept Azerbaijan’s conditions

However, for Türkiye, Azerbaijan’s restoration of full control over Nagorno-Karabakh is not the ultimate goal; Ankara’s geopolitical ambitions are much broader and extend not only to the South Caucasus, but also Central Asia. In this context, according to Ankara’s plans, Armenia, which lost Karabakh, should become Türkiye’s link with mainland Azerbaijan, and the victorious Azerbaijan should become a centre for integration with the Turkic countries of Central Asia.

Accordingly, a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Turkish terms ensures systemic geopolitical and geo-economic transformations in Eurasia from Istanbul to Samarkand. At the same time, Türkiye, as a NATO member, is counting on the support of the United Kingdom and United States as a kind of victory for NATO in the post-Soviet space. Türkiye also claims to be the leader of the Turkic axis within the framework of a multipolar world.

A peculiarity of Türkiye’s modern expansion into the South Caucasus and Central Asia is that it is not a direct military confrontation with geopolitical rivals (namely Russia, China and Iran), but an indirect diplomatic confrontation in the context of partnership strategies with Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Ankara has been quite successful in using trade relations and the temporary difficulties faced........

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