By Trend
The Armenian Armed Forces, which are losing manpower and
military equipment, are replenishing their ranks with terrorists
from different countries, experts of the Turkish Foundation for
Political, Economic, and Social Researches (SETA) Can Acun told
Trend.
Acun said that the claims of some media outlets that militants
from a number of Arab countries are sent to Azerbaijan via Turkey
are complete nonsense.
"The Azerbaijani army is modernized, almost like the Turkish
one, and needs no outside support," he noted.
According to him, it's Armenia that is sending terrorists to the
occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
"In Nagorno Karabakh, a battalion of Nubar Ozanyan, who was a
member of the PKK/ YPG terrorist group’s Syrian wing, is fighting
on the side of Armenia against the Azerbaijani Armed Forces,” the
expert also noted. “Moreover, Armenia is sending terrorists to the
occupied territories of Azerbaijan from Iraq’s Sinjar district and
this is a real threat to the region.”
Acun pointed out that the world community turns a blind eye to
all this.
"Unfortunately, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries also
didn’t pretend to maintain their neutrality and took the position
of Armenia. Each of the countries has its own interests and
motivations,” he said. “The influence of the Armenian lobby and
Turkophobia is great in Western countries, and they act on this
basis.
"Civilian residents of Azerbaijan are dying namely because these
countries actually turn a blind eye to violations of the ceasefire
by Armenia," he added.
From September 27 to October 17, 60 Azerbaijani civilians were
killed and 271 were injured. Among the dead and wounded are women
and children. Civilian infrastructure was seriously damaged. These
facts are another display of the terrorist and fascist policy of
Armenian military-political leadership towards the peaceful
population of Azerbaijan.
Armenian Armed Forces launched a large-scale military attack on
positions of the Azerbaijani army on the front line, using
large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery on Sept. 27.
Azerbaijan responded with a counter-offensive along the entire
front. As a result of retaliation, Azerbaijani troops liberated a
number of territories previously occupied by Armenia, as well as
take important, strategic heights under control.
The fighting continued into October 2020, in the early days of
which Armenia has launched missile attacks on Azerbaijani cities of
Ganja, Mingachevir, Khizi as well as Absheron district.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in
1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a
result of the ensuing war, the Armenian Armed Forces occupied 20
percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and
seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council
resolutions on the withdrawal of its armed forces from Nagorno
Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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