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“Turkey's active unconstructive involvement resulted in increased tensions in Syria, which also caused problems for Turkey itself. Instead of calling Russia, China and Iran for changing their position on Syria, Ankara as a regional country and Syria’s neighbor could have kept away the conflicting parties from such developments. But it didn’t happen so. On the contrary, it is more than obvious that Turkey has exclusively a negative role in the Syrian conflict,” Turkish Studies expert Levon Hovsepyan told Panorama.am, commenting on Turkey’s policy in Syria.

Asked to comment on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks at the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) congress that “Turkey will not change its position in Karabakh issue until our Azerbaijani brothers’ rights are restored,” Mr Hovsepyan said, “Erdogan’s statement is not based even on purely declarative principles of regional security and stability of Turkey’s foreign policy.”

“Both the statement of Turkish PM Erdogan at the Justice and Development Party's congress and the statement of Turkish FM Amhet Davutoglu at the United Nations General Assembly run counter to the logic of regional stability and security, principles of the international community as well as declarative principles of Turkey’s foreign policy,” the expert concluded.