Terror attacks in Istanbul are extremely unfavorable to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which is not interested in continuing its confrontation with the Turkish Government.

Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Victor Nadein-Rayevsk, who is also a political analyst and turkologist, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am, touching on the recent blasts in Istanbul.

In his words, the responsibility of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party for the terror attacks in Istanbul is extremely dubious.

“Yes, this resembles a Kurdish signature, because they are against the servicemen, that is, the Kurds don’t fight against civilians. However, ISIS chooses more crowded places, since it is necessary to frighten, bring to knees, etc.

The Kurds have quite different tasks: as a rule, they fight against servicemen, gendarmerie and police. But the thing is that according to not so verified data, the so-called “Kurdistan Freedom Falcons” organization has claimed responsibility [for the attacks],” Viktor Nadein-Rayevski noted.

According to him, this organization, which once used to be a youth one, then slightly grew up and separated from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. “It has nothing common with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. For them, Abdullah Öcalan and Kurdish partisans are betrayers of the nation. It is unknown who is included in this organization and who leads it, but, as a rule, their actions (one of which was held this February, when the bus with aviators was blown up not far from the General Staff in Ankara) take place at a time which is rather convenient for the authorities. This time the terror attack happened again at a time convenient for the authorities, since immediately after this the ruling parties came up with initiatives on widening the scope of presidential powers and turning the country from a parliamentary republic into a presidential one,” the analyst said.  In this case this was a very convenient time for a terror attack exactly for the authorities.

“Actually, Öcalan, who has been long trying to resume the ties with the Government and return to the talks, is not interested in the terror attacks.  Secondly, Kurdistan Workers’ Party doesn’t fight in large cities: it organizes nothing like that in large cities. They have quite a different signature,” Nadein-Rayevsky stressed.

There are suspicions that the organization “Kurdistan Freedom Falcons” was established by the Turkish authorities themselves. “But to reach a final conclusions on this matter one should, of course, watch who will officially claim responsibility [for the attacks],” the analyst concluded.

Two terror attacks took place near Vodafone Arena stadium in Istanbul in the evening of December 10.