Armenia PM Pashinyan says Turkey behind ‘war’ in Karabakh

https://news.yahoo.com/ ^ | 10/6/2020 | afp via msn

[RomanSoldier19]

Turkey's "full support" motivated its ally Azerbaijan to reignite fighting in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Tuesday in an interview with AFP, calling the escalating conflict a "war against terrorism".

"While it is true that the leadership of Azerbaijan has been actively promoting bellicose rhetoric for the last 15 years, now the decision to unleash a war was motivated by Turkey's full support," the 45-year-old premier said.

"Without Turkey's active engagement this war would have not begun," he added, speaking to AFP in a sumptuous room of the Government House in the heart of Armenian capital Yerevan.

The prime minister arrived in a motorcade with wailing sirens, while armed soldiers in combat gear manned the entrance to the imposing building, built in the era of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

[RomanSoldier19]

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Headline doesn’t match story

[RomanSoldier19]

[RomanSoldier19]

[Zhang Fei]

At 66, Erdogan’s a bit old to be embarking on Alexander-type foreign adventures. Of course, Alexander took power at age 20 over a seasoned army honed in battle (some of which engagements he personally played a part in) by his late father, so had a head start. Better late than never, perhaps, from Erdogan’s standpoint.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3890499/posts?page=15#15

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nagornokarabakh/index

[UnwashedPeasant]

Turkey might be in NATO, but Azerbaijan is not.

Nuke ‘em.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Erdogan. E dragon. Add another digit to his age too. 666

[hinckley buzzard]

Actually it does, but this fight is in their DNA, going back to the PreArmenians and the Assyrians 5-600 years BC.

[BeauBo]

Erdogan uses the Turkish treasury to maintain a Foreign Legion of International Jihadis, and along with the Turkish Military, he uses them for two purposes:

1. Seize land along Turkey’s borders, to annex.
2. Access oil/gas, for him and his family to corruptly profit

Armenia borders Turkey, and Azerbaijan has big oil and gas fields.

Also Armenians are Christians, and Azeris are muslim, so it appeals to his jihaid mercs.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Current title isn’t the original title. It’s been fixed.

[SunkenCiv]

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