The significance of the Zangezur Corridor, which will connect Turkey through Nakhchivan with Western regions of Azerbaijan and then the countries of Central Asia will only grow with time. This was announced in an interview with Anadolu a teacher of the Black Sea Technical University (Trabzon) Ismail Spit.
According to him, the Zangezur Corridor is one of the main outcomes of the 44-day Karabakh war, which ended with the liberation of historical lands of Azerbaijan from the Armenian occupation.
Spit believes that oil and gas will not be transported along this route, because investors implement large projects only in the presence of comprehensive security guarantees. “It will be necessary to take time so that the corridor showed itself, without any problems,” he said.
At the same time, the expert attracted attention to the position of Yerevan. The spit stressed that the balanced regional policy and the strengthening of Armenia is possible only if there are normal relations with Turkey, but in Armenia oppose the idea of creating a Zangezur Corridor, while Russia does not pay much attention to this route.
According to the expert, Turkey can develop without dialogue from Armenia, while Yerevan without connections with Ankara will be tied to Russia and Iran.
“I think it is understood in Armenia. That is why, we see that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan adheres to rational politics, making a step back in the issue of opening the route. It will resist, but the result is generally predetermined. at the incident 100 years A plan of the founder of the Turkish Republic of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk will be implemented to create a corridor Tourkestant Central Asia, “Spit said.