Does the Turkish proxy state of Azerbaijan intend to change its constitution?

While on a visit to Baku, Chair of the Turkish Defense Committee Hulusi Akar stated that some countries allegedly want to make Armenia a proxy state.

“If Armenia follows what they say, it may find itself in the same position as during the 44-day war, when it suffered serious losses,” he said. According to him, Baku and Ankara are trying to ensure that Azerbaijan’s peace proposal to Armenia is accepted soon, “and stability comes to the region as soon as possible.”

Let’s leave aside the fact that Azerbaijan itself has long been a proxy state of Turkey—also Great Britain—and note that in fact, with this statement, Akar supported Azerbaijan’s demand regarding the amendment of the Constitution of Armenia, the rejection of the country’s Declaration of Independence, as well as the exclusion of all documents and references to Artsakh, the Artsakh issue, and the Armenian Genocide.

It is also obvious that Nikol Pashinyan seeks to fulfill the demands of official Ankara and Baku. He declared the need to adopt a new constitution in the country and create a Fourth Republic, and it is also obvious that with the diligence of a “clerical bureaucrat,” he is “overfulfilling the plan,” which is why the Speaker of the National Assembly declares the need to change the coat of arms and anthem of Armenia.

However, it is noteworthy that Pashinyan himself understands that it will be almost impossible to get more than 650 thousand votes “for” the adoption of a new constitution in a referendum (even taking into account the use of administrative resources), and according to Armenian media, Pashinyan instructed the “legal community” of his team to find “loopholes” to amend the Constitution through the National Assembly before the referendum, by changing the paragraph (Article 207 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia), according to which “an act put to referendum shall be adopted in case more than half of the participants of the referendum, but not less than one fourth of citizens with the right to participate in referenda, have voted in favour.”

Obviously, the adoption of these amendments will be a prelude to the adoption of a new Constitution with a minimum percentage of turnout. However, this process of introducing constitutional amendments to the National Assembly is a chance for the opposition to ensure that the Civil Contract faction loses its imaginary unity.

At the same time, returning to Pashinyan’s statement that Armenia and Azerbaijan should provide each other with mutual guarantees of the absence of territorial claims, it is worth understanding the following: will Azerbaijan change its constitution?

If Pashinyan’s version of events is correct, Ilham Aliyev’s regime should also make constitutional changes because the current Azerbaijani constitution is based on the act “On the State Independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan” adopted in 1918. That is, the current Azerbaijan has declared itself the successor of Musavatist Azerbaijan, which implies territorial claims to the current Republic of Armenia. This means that Azerbaijan does not recognize Armenia’s 29,800 square kilometers.

For what reason does official Yerevan not raise this issue? For what reason does official Yerevan not raise the issue of the Shushi Declaration, which reflects claims regarding Armenia’s sovereign right to control communications on its territory?

Maybe Pashinyan and his team do not do this because they understand that the process they have launched in Armenia will lead the country not to the “creation of the Fourth Republic,” but to irrevocable destruction.

Think about it….