Bridge from Turkey to Central Asia will be built at expense of Armenia, expert says

Russian political scientist Alexey Anpilogov commented to Alpha News on the statement by the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov, regarding attempts by individual states to strengthen their own positions in the South Caucasus.

According to the expert, the main player in building a huge interstate civilizational bridge to Central Asia is Turkey.

“Turkey, as a member of NATO but primarily as the leader of the Turkic-speaking world, now also claims historical leadership in the Muslim world. Here both the ethnic linguistic factor and the religious factor are mixed. Armenia, of course, as a state that is generally quite cautious about the Turkic world and the very idea of the Turkic world, does not seem to fit into this idea,” Anpilogov said.

According to the expert, the Turkic bridge from Turkey to Central Asia will be built at the expense of Armenia.

“The Turkic world, the Turkic bridge from Turkey to actually Central Asia, or maybe further the Muslim, Turkic territory of Russia, will be built at the expense of Armenia and Armenian interests. This may happen, unfortunately, at the expense of the Armenian people in terms of civilization, when the Armenian identity, the Armenian language and the Armenian culture will be destroyed, as they were de facto destroyed in Turkey. I will remind you about the city of Ani, the ancient capital of Armenia, and about a number of other monuments that have either been completely lost or are on the brink of total destruction.

There are historical examples, such as Nakhichevan, where Armenian cemeteries were destroyed, and current examples, such as the chaos happening before our eyes—the destruction of the cultural and historical heritage of Artsakh, which is now happening with Azerbaijan’s full connivance. Unfortunately, it is precisely with this perspective that we can describe the most likely scenario for the construction of this kind of Turkic road from Turkey to Central Asia through the Caspian Sea,” Anpilogov concluded.