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Turkey threatens Armenia against breaking the Nagorno-Karabakh truce
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Turkey threatens Armenia against breaking the Nagorno-Karabakh truce
Azerbaijan’s closest ally says it would resume military action if Armenia does not abide by deal and withdraw ‘voluntarily’!
Days after a peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh was reached, Turkey has warned Armenia it will have to bear consequences if it violates the ceasefire.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in the Azeri capital Baku on Thursday: “If they [Armenia] violate the ceasefire, then they will pay the price for it.”
Ankara is Azerbaijan’s closest ally in the fight over Nagorno-Karabakh and has been celebrating the peace agreement reached earlier this week between Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia that was in Azerbaijan’s favour.
Armenia must “abide by the deal and withdraw voluntarily”, Cavusoglu added, warning Azerbaijan would otherwise resume its military action to “recapture Azerbaijani territories.”
Turkey and Russia agreed on Wednesday to jointly operate a centre to oversee peace in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A Russian delegation is set to visit Turkey on Friday to discuss details of how the joint centre will operate, Cavusoglu said, adding that unmanned armed drones would carry out surveillance missions in the region to ensure there are no violations.
“We will continue to stand by Azerbaijan and support them however they would like us to,” he added.
Russia is sending nearly 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers.
On Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would take part in what he called a “peace force” in the region.
Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, however, on Thursday said “no peacekeeping units of the Turkish Republic will be dispatched to Nagorno-Karabakh”, according to comments carried by Russian state news agency TASS.
Diplomats from France and the United States were expected in Moscow soon to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Russia-brokered deal secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azeri troops have been battling ethnic Armenian forces over the past six weeks in a fight that has killed more than 1,000 people, including dozens of civilians on both sides.
The accord has triggered protests in Armenia for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
As in Syria, Turkey is once again forcing it’s totalitarian and oppressive politics onto the region, attacking those who fails to conforms to Erdogan’s will.
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Baku and Yerevan have been in a state of a semi-permanent war since 1988, always tittering on the edge of a knife in the name of national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
But, Azerbaijan and Armenia’s territorial dispute dates back to 1918, following the disintegration of the Transcaucasian Federation, when both states laid claims to territories they respectively understood as ethnically and historically theirs.
With Turkey threats and interference this will only lead to more inflammation in a volatile area meaning more suffering for the people on both sides.
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