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French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned what he calls “ruthless and dangerous” rhetoric on Turkey’s part.
“Today we have information that shows with certainty that fighters from Syrian jihadist groups have traveled through Gaziantep (in Turkey) to reach the scene of operations in Nagorno-Karabakh,” Macron said.
He adds:
– It is a new, very serious event.
Armenia has previously accused Turkey of sending thousands of Syrian rebels to the region to fight for the Azeri army. And Moscow, which warns that Syrian and Libyan mercenaries sent to the region pose a threat to the security of both Russia and other neighbors, has demanded that the “terrorists” be immediately evacuated from the area.
Turkey has resigned be willing to “do whatever it takes” to support its allies in Azerbaijan in the armed conflict over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is controlled by Armenian separatists. But both Ankara and Baku deny accusations that Syrian rebels participated in the fighting.
The territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been going on for decades. But the fight that broke out on Sunday is the worst in several years. Both parties have reported deaths, both civilian and military.
Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump urge the parties to immediately lay down their arms.
“We also call on the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to commit themselves without delay to the resumption of regular negotiations, in good faith and unconditionally,” they wrote in a joint statement as co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
A ceasefire can They only exist if the “Armenian occupiers” withdraw from the breakaway region, contradicts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who describes the proposals of the three countries as “unacceptable”.
Thursday’s remarks come on the same day that two French and two Armenian journalists in Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, were injured in an Azerbaijani fire in the conflict zone. French journalists working for the daily Le Monde are seriously injured. France now plans to remove them from the area.
The extent of the injuries to the two Armenian journalists is unknown.
