“A group of armed people have taken as hostages a small group of policemen and in order to release them they demand the release of Jirayr Sefilyan who was imprisoned with the charges of illegally obtaining, keeping, transporting weaponry. A policeman has been killed, two have been wounded. In order to stop and disrupt the criminal actions of the armed group that illegally holds the area, the Special Forces have released two hostages.
An armed group has entered the building of the patrol police department in Yerevan and keeps people there with the threat of violence.
Currently the society is becoming more demanding, and the civil society should raise from that demanding and lead the public, make the state and the authorities assume that responsibility. I don’t know it succeeds or not, I can’t say, the situation is yet unstable and indefinite.
“Statements by the military, initiating the coup are noteworthy enough. They said this was an attempt to restore democracy and human rights, and this was an attempt to raise the honor of the humiliated military, i.e. the last attempt of Ataturkists—to make Turkey, existent in the 1980s, more secular. What would happen if this military won? It’s difficult to say. It’s not excluded, though, that as a rule, it would be followed by what has been followed almost after any military coup since 1960—reconceptualization of USA-Turkey relations.”
“Turkey’s internal life has entered a different-quality phase,” Cengiz Aktar, well-known publicist, Associate Professor at Süleyman Şah University, told 168.am reflecting to the attempted coup overnight. He stated that the night will leave a rather negative track in Turkey’s internal life. Aktar said that an attempted coup was recorded by planned military figures or intellectuals of the regime.
“Attempted coup, in fact, has foiled. A while ago the Prime Minister mentioned in his speech that the attempt foiled, and they’re controlling it. However, he also called on the people to go to the streets with the flags of Turkey. It’s interesting if plotters have been completely neutralized, and they’re controlling the situation, why did Erdogan call on the people? Basically, not everything has calmed down, either they are afraid of the second attempt. Attempted coup was mainly initiated by General Command of the Turkish Air Force and Gendarmerie General Command.”
“As a result of its adventurous policy in the field of foreign policy Turkey appeared on the threshold of heavy geo-political defeat, that’s why they attempted to overcome that situation by settling its relations with Russia and Israel. Crisis was observed inside the country as well: basically, Kurdish rebel movement continues, and they fail to put an end to that. On the other hand, we observe among the society, that polarization between powers sharing different views is intensifying, and a part of the army decided to put an end to that situation and alienate Islamists, represented by Erdogan, from the authorities. However, we observed, that the army didn’t act united,” the Turkologist said.
The Armenian citizens, who are currently in Turkey and need support, must apply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Armenian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Tigran Balayan posted a note in Twitter.
“If we compare economy prior to EAEU, presently, seemingly the period of restoration has been launched, as at the initial phase of entrance to EAEU, due to some confusion, essential reduction was observed, then it gradually started to be restored. Presently we’re gradually restoring the positions he had, however, it’s not the time to touch upon sharp growth. It’ll be recorded in the period, when our strategy-oriented model will completely function.”
It is noteworthy that Cavusoglu made another biased announcement regarding the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. “Turkey continues assisting the peaceful resolution of the conflict. The normalization of ties with Russia will definitely benefit this issue.
