YEREVAN. – While Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan was criticizing the authorities of Syria, Libya and several other countries, the latest developments in Turkey showed that all that is present in Turkey, too, and quite severely.   

Armenian capital city Yerevan State University Faculty of Oriental Studies Deputy Dean, turkologist Ruben Melkonyan stated the aforesaid during a press conference on Tuesday.

In his conviction, Turkey has been very active in the region in recent times.

“I believe the protests in Turkey can significantly damage [official] Ankara’s image as a ‘peacekeeper.’ The regional countries, which have seriously suffered from this image of Turkey, have received a good opportunity for an equivalent response,” the turkologist noted.