Do Armenia and Armenians need symbolic steps from Turkey? – Real Turkey
December 24 2025, 10:16
🔹 Erdogan’s pre-election gesture toward Pashinyan or Armenia and Armenians: are these symbolic steps from Turkey truly necessary?
🔹 Baku openly explains why SOCAR sells gasoline to Armenia: they want Armenia to rid itself of dependence on Russia and Iran. But why?
🔹 Do Azerbaijanis believe in peace with Armenia? A street survey in Baku
🔹 “Even the Turks in Cyprus have disagreements with Turkey. What is happening in the occupied north of the island and why did they overthrow Erdogan’s candidate?” – Mete Hatay, journalist and senior research consultant at the Cyprus Center of the Peace Research Institute Oslo
🔹 “Turkey is being forced to normalize relations with Armenia, and it cannot say ‘no,’ because Washington compels it” – Tuncay Yilmaz, political analyst, founder and co-chair of the Socialist Refoundation Party
🔹 “Turkey was built on the ruins of historical Armenia. In modern Turkey, Talaat and Enver are considered heroes” – Yektan Türkyilmaz, Turkish researcher of Kurdish origin, PhD from Duke University