Your trusted source

Armenian expert on Iran Vardan Voskanyan, who ran for parliament on the opposition I’m Honored bloc’s ticket in the June 20 elections, on Monday called attention to the fact that Turkey is involved in two military drills at once near the Russian borders.

“Turkey is currently involved in two military exercises at once near the Russian borders. In particular, they include NATO’s Sea Breeze exercises in the Black Sea and the joint Azerbaijani-Turkish military exercises named "Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – 2021” which started today [June 28] and were not announced in advance,” he wrote on Facebook.

The expert said that the two exercises are most likely interrelated.

“If we also consider the fact that according to the recently signed Turkish-US agreement, after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan Turkish forces will remain in the country as a NATO member state with the support and “blessing” of Washington, then we will get a Turkish military “crescent” stretching from Crimea to Kabul, which is trying to geographically blockade Russia and Central Asia, an area of vital importance for Russia, from the south.

“In fact, major geopolitical processes are taking place, in which, on the one hand, Armenia's strategic partner is involved, and on the other, its enemy, while the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan is basically non-functional,” Voskanyan said.