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The West is inciting Turkey against Russia and Russia against Turkey, said Turkish political analyst Mehmet Perinçek during a round table in Moscow on “Saakashvili’s new aggression. Russia fighting for a new Caucasus.”
He recalled how during WWII, Turkey and the USSR were fighting in the Caucasus front, “but it’s not always that these countries were competing [against each other].” A good example of partnerships, said Perinçek, was the “cooperation of Lenin and Atatürk.”
“Cooperation between Soviet Russia and Turkey ensured the friendship between the peoples of the Caucasus and maintained stability in the region; it eliminated the Armenian question, the conflict between Georgia and Armenia and the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Therefore, I think that cooperation between Turkey and Russia in the Caucasus would only benefit those countries,” he said.
Perinçek is sure that the West is screening “the same film in the Caucasus.” “The US wants to capture Central Asia. The springboard for this is the Caucasus and the Middle East. American politicians have developed a ‘Greater Middle East’ plan. Under this project, they want to change the boundaries of 24 countries in the region, including Turkey. In the Caucasus, due to revolution and sometimes aggression, as we saw in 2008, they want to encircle Russia.
“Our countries once again face a threat from the West, this time from the United States. Therefore, a strategic partnership is required today to eliminate interference from the West in this region, as well as to establish peace and friendship among peoples,” said the analyst, reports Regnum news agency.