Erdogan is seeking to destablise the region once again. There is definitely a Gladio "B" aspect to this.
Azerbaidjan is in the Turkish orbit while Armenia is a supporter of Russia.
I will be bringing more on this and look forward to hearing what Sibel Edmonds has to say about this.
Azerbaijan envoy says ready for military solution to Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Erdogan backs Baku
Sargsyan
urged the need to sign a mutual military assistance agreement with
Nagorno-Karabakh, tasking the Foreign Ministry with making all the
necessary preparations.
Azerbaidjan is in the Turkish orbit while Armenia is a supporter of Russia.
I will be bringing more on this and look forward to hearing what Sibel Edmonds has to say about this.
Azerbaijan envoy says ready for military solution to Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Erdogan backs Baku
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Vladimir Vyatkin / Sputnik
Azerbaijan
is ready to switch from a diplomatic to a military solution over the
breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, Polad Bulbuloglu, Azeri ambassador
to Russia, said following escalation in the area on Saturday.
“The
attempts of a peaceful solution to this conflict have been underway
for 22 years. How much more will it take? We are ready for a peaceful
solution to the issue. But if it’s not solved peacefully then we
will solve it by military means,” Bulbuloglu
told Govorit
Moskva radio
station.
According
to the ambassador, 21 percent of the Azerbaijani territory is now
being occupied by Armenia.
The
compromise on the part of Azerbaijan is an offer to the Armenian
military to abandon the disputed territory. Only after that may the
dialogue start about the coexistence of the Azeri and Armenian
peoples in Nagorno-Karabakh, he stressed.
Armenian
President, Serzh Sargsyan, promised that his country will fully
execute its obligations to ensure the security of Nagorno-Karabakh.
"We
have a legal right to so because we are a party to the ceasefire
agreement signed in 1994,” he
said on Saturday.
Heavy
fighting involving artillery, tanks and aircraft broke out on the
contact line between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh early on
Saturday.
It’s
so far unclear, who is responsible for the harshest escalation in the
region since 1994, with Baku and Yerevan shifting blame on each other
and claiming to have delivered significant losses to the opposition.
Azeri
Defense ministry said that it had lost 12 troops, a helicopter and a
tank during hostilities on Saturday.
According
to Sargsyan, 18 Armenian soldiers were killed and 35 injured in the
fighting with Azerbaijani forces.
Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has phoned his Azerbaijani
counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, to express condolences over the death of
Azeri troops on the Nagorno-Karabakh border.
"The
Turkish President expressed his support and solidarity in relation to
the events on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani and
stressed that the Turkish people will always be with the people of
Azerbaijan," the
Azeri president’s press service said in a statement.
Later,
Erdogan blamed the inaction of the OSCE Minsk Group for the
Nagorno-Karabakh dispute remaining unsettled after all those years,
Aksam newspaper reported.
"If
the Minsk Group had solved the problem in due time, we wouldn’t
have witnessed the events now taking place on the contact
line” between
Azeri and Armenian forces, the Turkish leader said in the US as he
opened an Islamic center in Lanham, Maryland.
Ironically,
Turkey is part of the Minsk Group, which has Russia, the US and
France as its co-chairs and also includes Belarus, Germany, Italy,
Sweden, Finland, and the two conflicting nations.
The
defense ministers of Azerbaijan and Turkey also discussed the events
in Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Turkish
Defense Minister, Ismet Yilmaz, expressed his full support to Baku,
saying it has a “just
stance” on
the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
Turkish
Foreign Ministry also condemned Armenia for an alleged attack and
urged Yerevan to fulfill the terms of the ceasefire.
The
two former Soviet republics are locked in a decades-long conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian mountainous region
that was part of Azerbaijan, but broke away in 1988.
The
region declared independence in 1991, with a bloody three-year war
following it. Russia brokered a ceasefire between Armenia and
Azerbaijan in 1994, but the tensions have never actually stopped
since then and there is occasional violence.
The
mutual distrust between Armenia and Azerbaijan is rooted in a long
history of ethnic and religious conflicts in the region as well as
their participation in the rivalry of regional heavyweights – the
Turks, the Russians and the Persians over the centuries.
Both
nations had their first bid for statehood in the wake of the collapse
of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century. Among other things
their independence resulted in a war in 1918.
When
Moscow reinstated its control over the region, the conflict was swept
under the rug, but never fully extinguished.
From the Guardian
Conflict erupts between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces
More than 30 people killed in clashes over separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus
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