Armenia and Azerbaijan Clash Over Nagorno-Karabakh
October 1st, 2020Via: ZeroHedge:
Already Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in their worst fighting in decades in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region. Now only three days into fighting, at least 100 people have been killed, which includes soldiers and civilians on both sides, amid tank warfare and the deployment of infantry and artillery units. There’s also increasing signs of direct aerial combat.
Raising the likelihood of a full-blown regional war in the Caucuses, Turkish President Erdogan’s office shocked on Tuesday with a direct threat of intervention on its ally Azerbaijan’s behalf:
Turkey raised the spectre of full-blown war in the flashpoint Caucus region of Nagorno Karabakh on Tuesday after vowing to help its ally Azerbaijan seize the disputed territory back from Armenian control.
As fighting in the region raged for a third day, Turkey said it was “fully committed” to helping Azerbaijan take back its “occupied” lands, which Azeris were driven out of during the civil war of the early 1990s.
