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Erdogan, who fuelled Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict arrives in Baku

WION News, India
Dec 10 2020
Edited By: Gravitas desk WION
New Delhi, Delhi, India

Despite a month after the peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan was signed, the crisis is far from over. 

In the latest, Yerevan has accused Baku of using phosphorous bombs during the fight. 

Azeri president, on the other hand, has said that the country will not shy of "breaking Armenia's back with an iron fist". 

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And amid the tense ties, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who fuelled this week war, has landed in Baku to survey the reins. 

Erdogan received a hero's welcome on his two-day visit to Azerbaijan 

He even reviewed a parade where Baku displayed the destroyed Armenian vehicles and dished out hate in plenty. 

To the unversed, Erdogan provided military and diplomatic support to Azerbaijan during the conflict and even praised Baku's operations. 

He even cheered "brotherly Azerbaijan with all our means and all our hearts". 

"If the people of Armenia learn their lessons from what happened in Karabakh, this will be the start of a new era in the region," said Erdogan. 

Karabakh is internationally recognised as a territory of Azerbaijan but until recently, it was populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians. 

According to the peace deal brokered by Russia, broad strips of Nagorno Karabakh territory were handed over to Azerbaijan. 

It also pushed Armenia into an internal political mess as thousands are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

Even though troops in Baku are celebrating their victory, over 5,000 military personnel died in six weeks of fighting and all this because one man couldn't keep himself from adding fuel to the fire. 

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS