Eurasia Daily: The SCO mission between Iran and Türkiye

The Eurasia Daily newspaper, posted article by Levon Saffarian, about Iran’s gains and losses from joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the fate of Erdogan’s maneuvers.

The article stated: Many experts see the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as an independent regional union that is metacentric in its orientation, an alternative to alliances belonging to the West.

Today, the SCO (with observers and dialogue partners) includes about 3.5 billion people (more than 40% of the population of our planet).

At the last summit of the organization in Samarkand, an important step was taken towards granting full membership to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A number of other Arab and Asian countries have announced their desire to cooperate with the Shanghai Organization.

In this regard, Eurasia Daily, a leading researcher at the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, asked Stanislav Mikhailovich Ivanov, his opinion, and he said: Iran’s entry into the SCO will allow for intensification of regional trade and efforts to develop alternative north-south transport corridors, and to some extent curb Tehran’s ambitions to accelerate its nuclear program.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is bound by the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones.

Any integration between states can be welcomed, because it meets the interests of the peoples.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently announced his desire to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Do you see this as another attempt by Türkiye to sit on two chairs?

Perhaps this can be seen in Erdogan’s arrival as a guest at the Samarkand summit and his declaration of his desire to start Türkiye’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Time will tell to what extent these intentions will be fulfilled and whether the acceptance of a NATO member state is consistent with the charter of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

This is likely just part of Erdogan’s electoral rhetoric.

His tendency to exploit the contradictions that have arisen between Russia and the West to his advantage will sooner or later lead to his political collapse.

Developing trade and economic relations with the East and West is one thing, and standing in two trenches facing each other in regional armed conflicts is another.