Erdogan Supports Azerbaijan that war with Armenia

Erdogan Supports Azerbaijan that war with Armenia

Yerevan (News Update) - President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Azerbaijan supports the war with Armenia on Saturday. While Russia continues to urge the two former Soviet republics that ended the hostilities.

The war that broke out briefly yesterday stem from the issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The region is actually located within Azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic Armenian. The Armenian side feels obliged to defend its ethnic and eventually war with Azerbaijan in the border region of the two countries.

Nagorno-Karabakh has been split from Azerbaijan in 1988. Then in 1991, Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence followed by a bloody war for three years.

 Russia has mediate a truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1994, but tensions between the two countries are not yet over and escalation occasional breaks.

The number of casualties in the fighting between the two countries is still confusing. The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan claims to liberate strategic regions and settlements of separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh. "Six tanks Armenia destroyed (and) more than 100 soldiers Armenians were killed and wounded," the ministry statement, quoted by Reuters, Sunday (3 / 4/2016).

However, the Armenian government denies this. Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan, has confirmed reports about 18 dead and 35 wounded in a brief war yesterday.

Azerbaijan expressed readiness to military solutions after decades of running a peaceful solution is futile. It was mentioned by the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Russia, Polad Bulbuloglu, shortly after the war broke out on Saturday.

"The attempt of a peaceful solution to this conflict has lasted for 22 years. How much more is needed? We are ready for a peaceful solution to this problem. But if not settled amicably then we will solve it by military means, "he told the radio station Govorit Moskva.

Instead, the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, vowed that his country would fully guarantee the security of Nagorno-Karabakh. "We have the legal rights of a ceasefire agreement signed in 1994," he said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, to express condolences over the death of Azerbaijani soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh border.

"The Turkish president expressed support and solidarity in relation to the incident on contact line between Armenia and Azerbaijan and stressed that the Turkish people will always be with the people of Azerbaijan," said the press service of the President of Azerbaijan said in a statement, citing the results of a telephone conversation Erdogan and Aliyev.

Erdogan blamed the inaction of the OSCE Minsk group related to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute is again heating up.

"If the Minsk group has solved the problem in time, we would not see the events that are now in the contact line between the troops of Azeri (Azerbaijan) and the forces of Armenia," Erdogan said during the opening of an Islamic center in Lanham, Maryland, United States.

Surprisingly, Turkey itself part of the Minsk group together with Russia, the United States and France that have the same obligation to monitor and maintain stability in the region. (....)