Azerbaijani expert: Armenian terrorism may target Armenians in Turkey as victims

Recently Russia has faced terrorist attacks carried out suicide bombings in the Moscow metro and in Dagestan’s Kizlyar area. In your opinion, are new attacks likely to occur in Russia in the near future?

Scientific projections indicate that after that kind of violent conflicts that occurred in Russia recently, acts of terrorism may last for 20-25 years. Russian special services need to develop a set of measures to prevent attacks of this kind and to minimize the probability of such a projection in the Russian Federation.

In your opinion, in programs devoted to the Moscow Metro blasts, no Russian TV channel mentioned that Armenian terrorists led by Zatikyan was first to carry out blasts in Moscow Metro stations and several other places killing 6 and injuring 37 back in 1977?

Russian Federation has quite high conflict rate. Russian TV channels refrained from mentioning that the first explosion in the Moscow Metro has been committed by Armenian terrorists led by Zatikyan, who also pursued their nationalist-religious purposes, in order not to provoke new conflicts.

The Russian press has repeatedly published materials related to terrorism, the Armenian nationalists and crimes committed by Zatikyan’s gang.

At a time when the Turkey-Armenia normalization has reached a deadlock, in your opinion, will the Armenian terrorism again be used as a mechanism of pressure on Turkey?

It is difficult to give unambiguous forecasts on this issue. But, in my opinion, for the moment the Armenian terrorists will not attempt to commit crimes against civilian population of Turkey, or against Turkish diplomats. Indeed, the process of normalizing Turkish-Armenian relations involves not only Armenia leadership, who hoped to reopen the land border with Turkey, but also Armenian diaspora and superpowers, who also keep a close eye on progress in the process. Therefore, committing terrorist attacks on Turkish territory would be very great, perhaps fatal mistake of Armenian terrorists.

Moreover, we must not forget about tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Armenia. It is not difficult to imagine what implication the acts of terrorism by Armenian terrorists in Turkey may have.

The history of Armenian terrorism is full of examples that Armenians themselves became victims. In other words, is there a risk that the Armenian terrorism will target Armenians who are illegal migrants in Turkish territory in order to shift the responsibility for these crimes to Turkey?

What you are saying now is a provocative terrorism. This type of terrorism has long been successfully used by Armenian terrorists. In particular, we all know that one of the organizers and active participants of the Sumgayit event was Edward Grigorian, an Armenian by nationality, born in Sumgait in 1959, convicted three times in 1979, 1981, 1982. He was personally involved in the killings of Armenians in Sumgait and led riots in this city. So, it is possible that the Armenian terrorism may target Armenians living in Turkey as their victims. Of course, those with experience in preventing terrorist attacks and security forces in Turkey should be prepared for such scenarios.

And is there a risk that the Armenian terrorism will once again try to commit crimes in Azerbaijan?

Of course, Armenia is a state that sponsors terrorism at the state level. It is also true that terrorism is used by world Armenians as a tool of pressure on Turkey, Azerbaijan and the entire world community. So, it is possible that the Armenian terrorism can think about the terrorist acts on the territory of Azerbaijan and security services need to keep this in mind.

But at the same time, realizing that Azerbaijan is a strong state, the Armenians are aware that the terrorist acts in our country will not help them to achieve their primary objective - the pressure on our country on ways of settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.


/Day.Az/