By Ján Cingel. After a failed military coup in Turkey, another unexpected drama of this summer took place in neighbouring Armenia. Although it received much less coverage in the global media, its implications are also important for the wider region and beyond, argues Jan Cingel (who personally witnessed the recent events in Yerevan) in the following policy brief.The hostage crisis at the end of July 2016 highlighted so-called “Karabakh syndrome” in Armenian internal politics, and might kill the short-lived window of opportunity for diplomatic conflict resolution in Nagorno Karabakh following the ‘small war’ in April this year with hundreds of …read more
Armenia – Country on Fire
