This more aggressive foreign policy has alarmed Turkey’s NATO allies but has won Mr. Turkey is engaged in the wars in Syria and Libya, it has mounted repeated military operations against Kurdish forces in Iraq, and it is pressing territorial claims in disputes with Greece and Cyprus. Erdogan has deployed troops, ships and aircraft with increasing readiness this year. If Turkish involvement is confirmed, even in a supporting role, it would be just one of several fronts where Mr. Turkey supplies weapons and training to Azerbaijan, and there are signs that it is actively engaged in the fighting, which Ankara has denied. On Thursday, the American, Russian and French presidents together called on both sides to cease hostilities. “Turkey continues to stand with the friendly and brotherly Azerbaijan with all its facilities and heart.”ĭozens have been killed in four days of fighting since Azerbaijan and Armenia began missile strikes against each other’s positions along a front line that has been frozen since a territorial war between the former Soviet republics in the 1990s. “I condemn Armenia once again for attacking Azerbaijani lands,” he said. He also demanded that Armenia withdraw from lands it occupied 30 years ago. Instead, he declared all-out support for the Azerbaijanis, close Turkic allies, and accused Armenia of ignoring efforts to negotiate a resolution. His mission was not to calm tensions between the warring parties, Azerbaijan and Armenia. ANKARA - When a long-simmering conflict in the south Caucasus burst into open warfare this week, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the first world leader to jump into the fray.
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