YEREVAN. - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is unlikely to become less adventurous and more forward-looking in foreign policy after the constitutional amendments.

Chair of the Turkish Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am. 

In his words, Erdoğan and the Turkish authorities have made a number of significant mistakes, the responsibility for which falls only on Ankara. Touching on the approval of the constitutional amendments by Turkey, Ter-Matevosyan noted: “If before Erdoğan had to consider the opinion of opposition forces inside the country during discussions in the parliament when making decisions, he has a free hand now, and there will not even be institutional suppressing leverages for limiting his adventurous policy. Currently, he has surrounded himself with loyal people, whom he changes periodically to make sure of the absence of domestic enemies”.

It is exactly here that the EU must have worked with Turkey and stop this process, he added.

“However, the relations between EU and Turkey are quite tense. There is no longer a mechanism by which Brussels could influence Ankara,” Vahram Ter-Matevosyan stressed.

The Turkish parliament on Monday adopted in the first reading the constitutional amendments stipulating the country’s shift from the parliamentary to presidential form of governance.