Nagorno-Karabakh

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Turkiye and Azerbaijan sign gas pipeline deal after victory in Nagorno-Karabakh

Turkiye and Azerbaijan have signed a deal for a gas pipeline linking the two countries following Baku’s military victory over Armenian militants in Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev met on Monday in the Azeri exclave of Nakhchivan. They hailed Azerbaijan’s military victory in Nagorno-Karabakh over the past week after Armenian militants were forced into a ceasefire following a 24-hour Azerbaijani military operation. “It is a […]

today27 September 2023

International News

Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire is right step, Erdogan tells Putin

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement was the right step towards a lasting solution, the Turkish presidency said on Tuesday. Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday under a deal that halted six weeks of fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces and froze territorial gains by Azerbaijan. Turkey is a close ally of Azerbaijan. Erdogan told […]

today11 November 2020

International News

Nagorno-Karabakh: Deadly fighting spills into fifth day

Heavy shelling between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces has been reported around the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as fighting raged for a fifth day, with both sides refusing to back down and heed international calls for talks. The fiercest clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in years over the breakaway region were ignited on Sunday, leaving scores from both sides dead. Azerbaijan’s general prosecutor’s office said on Thursday that Armenian shelling killed […]

today2 October 2020

International News

2,300 Armenian soldiers ‘neutralised’, says Azerbaijan

Fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia entered a fourth day on Wednesday in the biggest eruption of the decades-old conflict since a 1994 ceasefire. Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed region inside Azerbaijan and controlled by ethnic Armenians. It broke away from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s but is not recognised by any country as an independent republic. The fighting has spread beyond the borders of the disputed region, threatening to […]

today30 September 2020

International News

Nagorno-Karabakh battles continue as calls for calm grow

Battles between Armenian and Azerbaijan forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh have continued overnight, as international calls for calm after the heaviest fighting between the two sides in years grew. The Armenian defence ministry on Monday morning reported fighting throughout the night, while Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said Armenian forces were shelling the town of Terter. The clashes between the two former Soviet republics, which fought a war in the […]

today28 September 2020

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