The ongoing bloody battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh border region is rapidly being seen as a potential proxy war on the opposite side of the long-running dispute between Ankara and Moscow.
Reports and allegations surfaced this week that poor and desperate Syrian anti-government fighters, defeated by nearly 10 years of civil war and backed by Turkey in their final stronghold of Idlib, were recruited by private Turkish defense contractors. Nagorno-Karabakh.
A Syrian fighter who called for closer ties with Turkey told Fox News on Friday that four men from his hometown of Rastan – a small, ancient city and anti-Assad Balwark of the Holmes regime – had been killed on the battlefield this week. One relative was Keenan Farzat, a 35-year-old major in the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) unit known as the Syrian National Army.
In this image, taken from a footage released by the Armenian Ministry of Defense on Sunday, September 27, 2020, Armenian forces destroy an Azerbaijani military vehicle on the Azerbaijani self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh contact line.
(AP by the Armenian Ministry of Defense)
A member of his family said Kina had defected from the Syrian regime’s army in 2012 and joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA) as the leader of an artillery brigade within the first batch of troops. “In 2018, he refused to compromise with the regime and, like other flawed military officers, was deported to northern Syria. Keenan had two options, either he would go to Idlib and join Islamic and terrorist organizations, or he would go to Afrin. Join the Army. “
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He chose to go to Afrin and joined the Sultan Murad group, which operates under the Turkish army, a relative claimed that he was approached to go to Azerbaijan and was in danger of being refused – from Gaziantep airport and to Istanbul and then to Azerbaijan.
“This is heartbreaking news for the family,” the relative said. “We are revolutionaries and we have a reason; we don’t want to be international mercenaries.”
Fighting has erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan around the separatist region of Nargono-Karabakh, and the Armenian Defense Ministry says two Azerbaijani helicopters have been shot down.
(AP by Armenian Ministry of Defense)
However, French President Emmanuel Macron last week reaffirmed the claims, announcing that he had evidence that the fighters had actually passed through the Turkish city of Gaziantep in the South Caucasus conflict, which has already killed more than 200 people. Last month –
“Today we have information that shows with certainty that Syrian fighters from jihadist groups have been transferred by Gaziantep to reach the operation theater in Nazorno-Karabakh,” Maron announced, adding that he had arrived in Brussels for a summit with European Union leaders. “This is a very serious development.”
A spokesman for the Armenian embassy in Washington told Fox News in a statement that “jihadist terrorists have been transferred from Syria to Azerbaijan by Turkey to fight the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.”
Adding to the woes of the emerging proxy war, Russia’s foreign ministry – Armenia’s military and diplomatic ally – also said in a statement this week that “illegal armed units” sent to the region from Syria and Libya had been reported.
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Fox News could not independently confirm the route of the alleged trip or the death of the war, and both Azerbaijani and Turkish officials have unequivocally denied that such Syrian nationals were in the former Soviet war theater this week.
“Reports about some mysterious Syrian fighters in Azerbaijan are completely and utterly false. There is no piece of credible evidence of it. This is a clear attempt by the Armenian party to wage a Soviet-style propaganda war, trying to cover up its own relations with the terrorists. Distracts from the fact of illegal occupation, “a statement from the Azerbaijani embassy in Washington told Fox News. “Such fake news information warfare has become a new battleground and has serious consequences. I hope the media will try more fact-checking in the future.”
However, the Syrian relative also showed photos related to the identities of three other people in his 20s and 30s, possibly associated with the FSA and belonging to Rastan – who is alleged to have died this week.
It is not yet clear how many Syrian civilians were killed in this week’s fighting, with the Washington Post report on Friday estimating the figure to be at least 20.
In addition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that more than 300 Syrian fighters had been deployed in Azerbaijan.
“These Syrian fighters come from two ethnic Turkmen armed groups, including the Sultan Murad Division and the Suleiman Shah Brigade,” Rami Abdulhamman, director of the Syrian Observatory, told VOA.
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Reports have indicated that fighters are offered over 500 1,500 a month for work abroad, an impressive sum after years of civil war and poverty.
Omar Selik, a spokesman for President Erdogan’s ruling AKP, tweeted that the allegations were “false and provocative against Turkey”.
The statement further said, “There are false reports about the involvement of Turkish troops in the war. “Instead, the more serious concern should be the threat of fighting the Armenian side by Syrian and Lebanese groups, the Armenian military contingent supporting Damascus in the Syrian civil war and the presence of Armenian terrorists trained in the Bekaa Valley to attack Israel.”
On Sunday, October, 2020, a residential area building caught fire after a nighttime firing by Azerbaijani artillery during the military conflict in the indigenous People’s Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepnecart, Azerbaijan. On Sunday, Armenian officials accused Azerbaijan of staging a strike. On Stepnecart. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Armenian forces were attacking the towns of Tartar and Horadis from Stepanekart. (Areg Balayan / Armagov Pan Photo by AP)
Ankara this week accused Armenia of claiming Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish militants PKK – on a hostile border because of years of violence – was a longtime enemy amid a separatist pressure, but no further evidence has been provided.
Given the vast flood of foreign war action claims and claims, international observers have expressed concern that the long-standing and largely unresolved regional dispute could have far-reaching implications.
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Nagarono-Karabakh has been the cause of clashes since the 1994 ceasefire between the two former Soviet nations. The territory technically resides in Azerbaijan under international law, but is generally controlled and defined by ethnic Armenians – almost three decades after the Soviet Union, with the support of Armenia to run its affairs independently of the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Before.
Saturday, Oct October, 2020, Saturday, a building destroyed by gunfire during fighting in the broken area of Nagorno-Karabakh in Tartar, Azerbaijan. Armenia and Azerbaijan say heavy fighting continues in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan’s separatist territory. The president said his troops took him to a village late Saturday night. (AP Photo / Aziz Karimov)
Precious parcels – rich in minerals, mulberry groves and alpine meadows – are a source of patriotic pride for both the Muslim-majority Azerbaijan and the Christian-dominated Armenia.
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France, Russia and the U.S. The OSCE Minsk Group, co-chaired by, was established in 1992 to find a amicable solution. When a ceasefire was declared two years later, the controversy remains – punctured by terrible outbursts – such as weather power, missiles and heavy armor.
