Safrastyan: Armenian community of Aleppo is in danger
The outcome of Syria’s crisis is not yet visible and there is a real danger of military action against Syria, Ruben Safrastyan, Turkish studies expert, Director of the Oriental Studies Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, said at the Moscow-Tbilisi-Yerevan spacebridge in Yerevan.
“Turkey may strike Syria. From the very beginning of the conflict in Syria, Turkey actively supported the Syrian opposition,” he said.
Turkey has deployed a great number of offensive weapons near its border with Syria, so the danger of Turkey’s strike against Syria is topical, Safrastyan added.
According to the expert, there are 7,000 Syrian Armenian refugees in Armenia and the Armenian community of Syria, including Aleppo, is in great danger.
“The Armenian community of Aleppo will suffer big losses and will be forced to leave the city in case of Turkish attack,” Safrastyan concluded.