Expert: U.S. will try to reanimate Armenian-Turkish rapprochement

PanARMENIAN.Net - After the parliamentary election in Turkey, the United States will redouble efforts to reanimate the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement, an expert said.

“However, Washington has few leverages on Ankara. The U.S. needs Turkey more than vice versa,” Caucasus Institute director Alexander Iskandaryan told a press conference in Yerevan.

As to Russia and EU, which also mediates the normalization, he said, Europe can hardly succeed in compelling Ankara to compromise. “Russia, although being interested in reconciliation, will not press on Ankara either,” Iskandaryan concluded.