The back story is that this is Turkey’s continuation of their genocidal extermination of the Armenians who took the side of Russia in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
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Armenia and Turkey are continuing ancient hatreds with state of the art drone warfare.
Most Armenians used to live in the area of today’s Turkey. That was their ancient homeland. Only small portion of Armenia was taken over by Russians in 19th century.
There are basically No Armenians in Turkey now! Either killed or in emigration, few in hiding. The remaining Armenian Armenians (I believe most Armenians are actually in emigration.) live in the formerly Russian Armenia. They will Not share the fate of their brethren.