YEREVAN. - Infightings in Turkey are useful for Armenia. As Ankara will have less time for effective external politics in that case, specialist of Turkish studies Artak Shakaryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am commenting on the change of the military leadership.

In general, weakening of the military position in Turkey is useful for Armenia. As generals have always had extreme nationalistic attitude and always put forward relations with Azerbaijan. Moreover, Turkish military took Armenian community as a potential internal threat.

While Justice and Development Party headed by the Turkish PM Erdogan consider Turkey as a mosaic state, though still run Azerbaijan-centrist policy.

“During Erdogan’s reign, the state withdrew from politics and Turkey became more democratic,” Shakaryan stated.

He brought an example of Syria. If military decided issues regarding Syria in 1998, currently they can only express their opinion but are not decisive. 

The President of Turkey Abdullah Gul approved the appointment of General Necdet Ozel as Chief of General Stuff. The former Chief of GS Isik Kosaner resigned unexpectedly last week.  Commanders of the Land Forces, the Navy and the Air Force also resigned together with Kosaner. The Generals resigned the day before the major meeting of the Supreme military council.