ArmInfo. The Armenian Foreign Ministry made a statement in connection with the involvement of the Turkish Armed Forces in operations in the zone of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict.
The statement of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, in particular, says: "Yesterday morning, September 29, one of the F-16 fighters of the Turkish Air Force deployed at the Ganja airfield in Azerbaijan shot down a SU-25 assault aircraft of the RA Armed Forces. airspace of the Republic of Armenia - Vardenis region, combat missions to repel air raids by Azerbaijani aviation on military and civilian objects located on the territory of the Republic of Armenia Major Valery Danelin, a pilot of the RA Armed Forces, was killed. This is not the first provocation of the Turkish Air Force. With the appearance of the Turkish Air Force in Azerbaijan, they carried out provocative flights along the contact line between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, and during the aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan, they actually provided air support to the attacking armed units of the Azerbaijani army. It should be noted that provocative Turkish flights are also carried out along the Armenian-Turkish border, in some cases crossing and violating the airspace of Armenia. On September 27, on the same section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Turkish F-16 aircraft violated the air border of Armenia and fired missiles in the direction of the Vardenis region.
The Turkish armed forces appeared in Azerbaijan during the large-scale Turkish-Azerbaijani exercises in the period from July 29 to August 13 and have not yet been withdrawn from the territory of Azerbaijan. The provocative actions of the Turkish armed forces seriously threaten regional security and impede the efforts of the international community to end hostilities.
The international community has called on the regional forces to refrain from fomenting the conflict, and Turkey must heed these calls. "