Armenia as part of ‘Turkic Golden Age’

Global architecture is rarely shaped by wishes of small nations. It is designed by those who are accustomed to viewing the political map of the world as a drafting board for transcontinental ambitions. Within intellectual headquarters such as the Atlantic Council, the outlines of a future world order are openly and routinely drawn, where the “Turkic age” becomes not just a cultural manifesto but a rigid geopolitical instrument of containment. In this grand chess game, where Turkey, Azerbaijan, and the Central Asian states align into a single front, Armenia is assigned a role that can hardly be called sovereign. Like a puzzle piece that never quite fit, it is being forced or tricked into someone else’s mosaic, turned into the “missing element” of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS).

Not long ago, Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan explained convincingly that the current volumes of supplies from Azerbaijan physically cannot have any real impact on pricing in the country. This is pure information warfare, designed to create the illusion of benefit where in reality Armenia’s energy security is being dismantled in favor of new regional masters.

A special place in this scenario is reserved for June 2026. The referendum on amending Armenia’s Constitution, which Western experts dismiss as a mere formality, is in fact an act of final geopolitical capitulation. The legal details are secondary—the very fact that this referendum is dictated from Ankara and Baku delivers a crushing blow to the notion of independence. In Washington, this is called Pashinyan’s “bold steps,” but in reality it looks like preparing the country for the role of a “sanitary cordon.”

The experience of Ukraine comes to mind: there too, for decades, the concept of a counterweight state was cultivated, turning it into a battering ram against Russia. Today Armenia is being prepared for a similar role, but in an even more distorted format—embedded into a structure that is ideologically and culturally alien to it. The cynicism of the situation is that the interests of the Armenian people are secondary in these discussions. When Western experts talk about replacing the Metsamor nuclear power plant with American reactors or switching to Turkish internet traffic, they are not concerned with the progress of Yerevan’s citizens. Their sole goal is the complete elimination of Russian presence—from military bases to control over airspace.

In this logic, Armenia must become a “brigade” within the pro-Western Turkic bloc, a resource for a future frontal clash with Eurasian giants. And if, for the sake of forming this axis against China and Russia, Armenia’s statehood is finally dismantled or reduced to the nominal status of a transit territory, few in the comfortable halls of the Atlantic Council will express condolences. For the big game, what matters are logistical corridors and connectivity nodes, not historical memory or a nation’s right to self-determination.

The world being offered to Yerevan today is a world on the terms of complete dissolution into someone else’s project. Armenia is being persuaded that its salvation lies in becoming the “missing link” in a chain forged in Ankara and Washington. But the price of this membership in the Organization of Turkic States is a voluntary march to the front line of someone else’s war. To become part of the “Turkic age” as an economic and military appendage means losing sovereignty forever.

Think about it…