AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER DIES IN CLASHES WITH ARMENIAN TROOPS
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Feb 6 2015
6 February 2015
Armenian forces have allegedly violated the cease-fire at least
86 times using heavy weapons and mortars, the Azerbaijani Defense
Ministry says. An Azerbaijani soldier died Friday after sustaining
serious injuries in border clashes with Armenian forces Thursday night,
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.
According to the ministry statement Friday, Farid Aghayev succumbed
to his wounds at a hospital.
A separate statement from the ministry said that a woman was also
wounded in clashes and a house was burnt down in Azerbaijan’s western
province of Tovuz, which came under an alleged Armenian attack for
about four hours.
Armenian forces allegedly violated the cease-fire at least 86 times
using heavy weapons and mortars, the ministry added.
On May 12, 1994, a cease-fire agreement was signed between Azerbaijan
and Armenia after two decades of conflict over the disputed territory.
In February 1988, the regional parliament in Nagorno-Karabakh,
which is largely populated by ethnic Armenians, voted to declare its
independence from Azerbaijan. Armenia’s parliament voted to recognize
the independence, a move that prompted a forceful evacuation of over
200,000 ethnic Azerbaijanis from Armenia. Thousands of Azerbaijani
civilians lost their lives in the resulting conflict.
6 February 2015
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