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According to the partial mobilization decision, citizens who are fit to perform military service will be recruited and measures will be taken regarding military transport.
Furthermore, Hikmat Gadzhiyev, an aide to the President of Azerbaijan, denied that Ankara has sent Syrian fighters to his country, saying: “Rumors claiming to send militants from Syria to Azerbaijan are another provocation from the Armenian side and are complete nonsense.
And the Russian agency “Interfax” quoted the Armenian ambassador in Moscow as saying that Turkey had sent some 4,000 fighters from northern Syria to Azerbaijan, adding that they were actually participating in the fighting.
The Karabakh region, which is disputed between the two countries, has witnessed a military escalation since Sunday, resulting in deaths and injuries on the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides, while fighting continues in light of international calls for stop climbing.
the scene: On Sunday, Armenia and Azerbaijan exchanged accusations about responsibility for initiating an escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. While Armenia accused Azerbaijan of launching the attack, while Baku spoke of exposing their lands on the line of contact to the bombardment of the Armenians, which required a response from their forces.
Azerbaijan announced that its forces entered 6 villages under Armenian control during the fighting. While the Defense Ministry in the “Nagorno Karabakh” region replied that it had destroyed 4 Azerbaijani helicopters, 15 drones, in addition to 10 tanks, adding that 16 of its soldiers died and more than 100 were injured during the clashes.
The clashes in the region are the most violent chapter in the series of confrontations between the two countries, the last of which was in 2016, when battles broke out between the two sides, in the southeast and northeast sectors of the armistice line in the region.
The Nagorno-Karabakh region is within the Azerbaijani territories, but most Armenians live in it. It is a conduit for pipelines that transport oil and gas to global markets.
Roots of the conflict: The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno Karabakh region dates back to the 1920s, when Joseph Stalin decided in 1923 to annex the region, which was inhabited by an Armenian majority at the time, to Azerbaijan and grant it autonomy.
The dispute broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan for sovereignty over the region in 1988, during the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The conflict reached its climax when the two countries declared their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Simultaneously, the Armenians in the region declared secession from Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani government sent troops to try to get it back. In turn, Armenia supported the Armenians of Karabakh, thus starting the war that claimed more than 30,000 lives and almost a million displaced people, before a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1994 after the victory. of the Armenian army.
In 2006, Armenians in the region approved a constitution as a separate independent republic from Azerbaijan. The new country has the support of Armenia and Russia, but no country, including Armenia, recognized the independence of this region.
Several countries, led by Russia, the United States and France, form the “Minsk Group”, which has an international mandate to act as mediators to resolve this conflict. The group organized several rounds of talks for this purpose, but they were unsuccessful.
Impact factors: The conflict in the “Nagorno-Karabakh” region is affected by many regional and international factors, as several countries participated in or were affected by it.
During the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Russia provided direct military aid to the latter. While Turkey supported Azerbaijan and closed the Turkish-Armenian borders, although it did not actually participate in the war.
In the following years, relations between the parties to the conflict and their sympathizers deepened, so it was possible to speak of the Turkey-Azerbaijan axis, with Georgia joining it to a lesser extent, facing the Russia-Armenia axis.
between lines: The defense budget in Azerbaijan is several times the total budget of Armenia. In the past, Baku has repeatedly promised to take back the “Nagorno Karabakh” region by force.
On the other hand, Armenia claims that it is ready to repel any Azerbaijani attack at any time.
On this basis, it seems likely that intermittent clashes between the two sides will continue, especially as international parties seem comfortable to temporarily freeze the conflict and maintain the state of no war and no peace, as has happened for the past three decades.
