The earlier head of the nation’s intelligence service has indicated his company misplaced members within the Karabakh battle
Turkish International Minister Hakan Fidan, who beforehand headed the Nationwide Intelligence Group (MIT) for 13 years, has recommended that Ankara performed a direct function within the Second Nagorno-Karabakh battle in 2020.
Earlier than a gathering of Türkiye’s Nationwide Safety Council (MGK), President Recep Tayyip Erdogan awarded Fidan with a medal for distinguished service for his work as deputy undersecretary and president of MIT.
Upon receiving the award, Fidan said that “I’m receiving this medal on behalf of my pals, who have been martyred in Libya, Karabakh, Syria, and Iraq to hold out your orders whereas serving with me.”
Fidan’s assertion recommended Türkiye had been concerned within the Armenia-Azerbaijan battle, which value 1000’s of servicemen and over 100 civilians their lives.
Suspicions of Ankara’s function within the Second Karabakh Warfare stretch again to 2020, when numerous stories, in addition to a number of US and French officers, implied Türkiye had helped Azerbaijan put together and instigate the battle. Citing navy and diplomatic sources, the Kommersant newspaper alleged that Ankara had helped Baku by supplying it with weapons and had even despatched in fighters from Syria and Libya.
Formally, the connection between Ankara and Baku was restricted to political assist, in addition to occasional joint navy workouts. Nevertheless, Kommersant’s report claims that just one month earlier than the hostilities in Karabakh broke out, Türkiye had deployed a big contingent of its forces to Azerbaijan, who ended up taking part in a key function in coordinating and planning offensive operations towards Armenian positions within the area.
The Karabakh battle formally ended after Russia brokered a ceasefire between the 2 sides and despatched in peacekeepers alongside the contact line to assist preserve it. Since then, Ankara has additionally stated it could help with the peacekeeping mission and has positioned 60 troopers to serve at a joint monitoring middle opened by Russia and Türkiye within the japanese a part of the Nagorno-Karabakh area.
The Nagorno-Karabakh dispute dates again to 1988, when the ethnic Armenian majority area broke away from Azerbaijan, triggering an ethnic battle that claimed 1000’s of lives earlier than it was frozen by a 1994 truce. In 2020, combating broke out as soon as once more in what’s now referred to as the Second Nagorno-Karabakh Warfare. Regardless of Russia freezing the battle with a ceasefire, the area has continued to see occasional flare-ups between the 2 neighbors.
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