Vardan Voskanyan: "We Are Not Fighting the 'Turkic World', But..."

Iranologist Vardan Voskanyan's statement: "There is a very important point that needs special attention to avoid, to put it mildly, inaccurate approaches. Armenia, in essence, has no problem with the majority of Turkic-speaking states and peoples. Our issue is with two states—Turkey and Azerbaijan—and their regimes, which, despite certain internal contradictions, mainly act as a unified anti-Armenian front, attempting to expand it at the expense of other Turkic-speaking countries and nations.

In general, Armenia has no issue with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, or Kyrgyzstan, nor with the Nogais, Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, and Yakuts. Therefore, we are not fighting, to put it very conditionally, against the 'Turkic world', but against two states that are filled with hatred towards us and striving for our destruction, as well as against individuals or organizations infected with the pathogen of Pan-Turkism, nourished through these states."