Turkey will hardly face the problems existing in Arab countries, as “Turks have been through this before”, said Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan.

Turkey is not a country it used to be 20 or 50 years ago. It is trying to play a new role in the region. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey was cut off from the region, being just a NATO member state which has no allies in the region. It had serious problems with all neighbors. “Presently the country is trying to change everything, and I must admit it succeeds in some points,” he said.

Iskandaryan considers Turkey has consciously added Islamic rhetoric in its policy to distance itself from unrests similar to those happening in Tunisia, Egypt and other Muslim countries