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“We, as the Republic of Turkey, as the armed forces, are ready to do whatever it takes (for Azerbaijan). Let no one doubt it,” Akar said, according to the Anatolian news agency. The Turkish defense minister also said that Azerbaijan had experienced Armenian aggression.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also expressed concern about the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on Tuesday.
The situation on the border between the two countries was complicated on July 12. Azerbaijan said that the Armenian armed forces were trying to attack their army positions using artillery, and Yerevan claimed that the situation had been exacerbated by Azerbaijan’s actions. Baku reported that 11 Azerbaijani soldiers had died in three days of fighting, and Yerevan reported that four Armenian soldiers had died and 10 were wounded.
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh began in February 1988, when the Armenian autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh declared its withdrawal from the RSS of Azerbaijan. In September 1991, the establishment of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was announced at the Stepanakert Autonomous Administrative Center. Following the military conflict, Azerbaijan lost control of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Negotiations for a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem have been ongoing since 1992, but have so far failed.
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