“Ankara’s real disappointment must not be evaluations of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu or the prime minister’s advisors, but the stance of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev,” Ergun Babahan writes in his article posted in Today’s Zaman.

“Aliyev’s stance on Turkey is taken from actual discussions that were held with him directly. Aliyev notes that he dislikes Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. This is his most natural right. But he later notes that they are opposed to Turkey being an energy center; meaning, they don’t want Turkey to gain power,” the author writes.

“This Turkey they speak of closed its doors to Armenia without any expectations in return. Turkey, once again, took a step back for Azerbaijan’s sake and did not fulfill its promise to Armenia, citing a series of weak excuses. When this agreement was in the spotlight, it was Aliyev who had the biggest problem with it. So much so that he had a group of deputies sent to Turkey in order to spread anti-government propaganda,” the article reads.

“And Erdogan, going to Baku for energy-related reasons, had promised that until the Nagorno-Karabakh problem is solved, the border would not be opened.

It has now become apparent that regardless of what Turkey does, the Azerbaijani administration will be an opposition on the matter of energy.

So why is Ankara maintaining this attitude, which places itself in a troubled spot on the international platform, for a dictator who has swindled it, forcing a people to live under difficult circumstances?

Aliyev has clearly stated to the US administration that he is opposed to the role Turkey has taken on in the region. This is not an attitude befitting a brother and friend of a country. It’s a hypocritical stance, to say the least. Turkey’s hand certainly does not deserve to be in such a helpless state against Azerbaijan. The WikiLeaks documents have become documents that will ease Turkey’s stance where the Armenian issue is concerned. Ankara must use this card well,” the author concludes.