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Turkey does not recognize the so-called "elections" in Nagorno-Karabakh, a message from the Turkish Foreign Ministry read.

Ankara believes that holding the so-called "parliamentary elections" in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan is a serious violation of international law.

Relying on the rulers in Yerevan the separatist authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh are going to play hardball against Baku by holding fictitious "parliamentary elections" on May 3, 2015.

“As a member of the OSCE Minsk Group, Turkey will continue to support efforts aimed at finding a fair and lasting solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," the Turkish ministry said.

"The upcoming "elections" is the clear violation of Azerbaijan's Constitution and the norms and principles of international law,” Spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Hikmet Hajiyev said, adding that it aims to undermine the peace negotiations over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict's settlement.

Earlier, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry called the ‘parliamentary election’ planned to be held by the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh on May 3 as illegal.

The Azerbaijani authorities announced that they would interpret any step taken by the puppet regime in these territories as an act of aggression on another country's territory.

Armenia's armed invasion into Azerbaijan's legal territory resulted in a severe conflict pushing the two neighboring countries into a bitter territorial dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Armenia-backed separatists seized from Azerbaijan in a bloody war in the early 1990s.

Despite Baku's best efforts, peace in the occupied lands remains a mirage in the distance as Armenia refuses to comply with international law.

Baku proposed a Great Peace Agreement project to work jointly on the conflict's settlement. Yerevan refused of course to seize such peace opportunity, preferring instead to support the occupation.

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