In an interview to CivilNet, Benyamin Poghosyan, APRI Armenia’s Senior Research Fellow, analyzed why Turkey’s role in the South Caucasus is underestimated and how Ankara’s “Azerbaijan First” policy continues to constrain normalization with Yerevan. He addressed Azerbaijan’s pressure on Türkiye to keep Armenia weak and analyzes what President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks about “symbolic steps” toward Armenia could signify.
