Azerbaijan, Turkey Watching Armenia’s Political Crisis
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 36
Protests against Pashinian in Yerevan s Republic Square, March 1 (Source: The Armenian Weekly)
Viewed from Baku and Ankara, the political conflict in Armenia pits military and civilian nationalists unreconciled to defeat in the Second Karabakh War (September 27–November 9, 2020) versus the armistice-accepting government of Nikol Pashinian. As the former seek to oust the latter from power (see EDM, February 25, 26, March 1), the governments of Azerbaijan and Turkey view Armenia as facing a choice between relentless hostility toward its Turkic neighbors or cooperating with them to lift Armenia from entrenched poverty.