Armenian President: Participation of uncontrolled Jihadis terrorists  in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh contradicts all international norms

ArmInfo.Turkey brought with them generals, officers and supervisors to mainland Azerbaijan, and the worse, it hired terrorist groups, Jihadis from Syria. And this is not about 10 or hundreds. It is about thousands of them.

How on earth a 3rd country interferes in the conflict of two states: the state of  Azerbaijan and the small state of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is, of  course, Armenian, and the Armenians are supporting them. However, as  you break into that equation, Jihadis are terrorists and this is not  controllable. President of the Republic of Armenia Armen Sarkissian  expressed such opinion in an interview with the Chinese Caixin Media.

The President also touched upon the origins of the Karabakh problem:   <In the early 90s, or 1988, when after 70 years of forcibly being  part of Soviet Azerbaijan the breakdown of Soviet Union happened, and  the people in Nagorno-Karabakh, eventually, in a referendum, voted  for getting out from Azerbaijan and declared again their independence  that they had for hundreds of years or thousands of years.   Azerbaijan's reaction was not a sort of a 20th century reaction. It  was just sending troops and started killings. And the conflict turned  into a war, which was stopped in 1994 with an understanding that  there will be negotiations. And here the OSCE Minsk Group started  with three Co-Chairs: the United States, France, and Russia.>

<There have been negotiations for 26 years. In any negotiation  between states or parties of the conflict, or commercial  negotiations, it never happens that everybody is happy and you come  to a conclusion immediately. Sometimes you are happy with  negotiations. Sometimes you are not happy with negotiations. That is  a normal life. You have to be patient because the alternative is a  war. Now Azerbaijan has decided to withdraw itself from the  negotiating table, and take the path of the war. It has already  happened a couple of times. But these were local wars, four-day war  in 2016, and another conflict in last July which was a very local  one," the President of Armenia said.

The President expressed his conviction that the agreements between  Turkey and the United States do not allow this country to take such  steps."I am absolutely confident that the agreements that Turkey  signed to become a NATO member are forbidding them to do that. But  they have just ignored all that. And now we also have facts that  American equipment is used not only in Nagorno-Karabakh or Artsakh  Republic, not only there are drones made in different places of the  world, including in Turkey, but they are using them against Armenia"  "So, we have all the evidence of Turkish involvement. Then they give  some "reasons" of why they are doing that. One of the reasons is that  they are ethnic brothers with Azeris. I'm sorry; Turkish nations are  so big, and Turkey has ethnic brothers in the North Caucasus, in  every region of Russia, in Central Asia, including in the north of  China. But if they are looking for ethnic brothers, they can have the  freedom of interfering in each and every of those states in order to  support somehow a call from ethnic brothers. Absolutely   unacceptable."

<Second, they were claiming that there are PKK soldiers or fighters  in Armenia. A complete nonsense! There is not even one or a half of a  PKK soldier in Armenia.  We have a very small minority of Kurdish  Yazidis, and other ethnic minorities.  But they are not many. And  most of them are Yazidis. They are not Muslims.  Their faith is  Yazidi. And all of them are very good citizens of Armenia, and some  of them living in Nagorno-Karabakh. When the danger is there  everybody is basically fighting for their own country because they  all are citizens of the Republic of Armenia or they are citizens of  Nagorno-Karabakh. So, this is another nonsense.>

Sarkissian, in particular, also noted that: <The modern Turkey, which  in recent 30 years goes from economic difficulty to economic rise and  go economically down again is getting more and more unreliable and  irresponsible in its actions. It proves by the conflicts that Turkey  is getting involved in South, North, East or West. Turkey intervened  in Syria and Libya. Before they also managed to destabilize the  Egypt.  Now the tensions in the Mediterranean, and mounting  confrontation with Greece and Cyprus as well as Israel. At the same  time Turkey is now acting against Armenia. It is 360 degrees around  them. Some analysts say this is the return of the Ottoman Empire.   Some analysts say it is back to what we saw hundreds of years ago.>

He expressed confidence that the war started by Baku was provoked or  even directed by Ankara.

Answering on the question whether offenses launched by Baku's  offensives are emboldened by Ankara or even instructed by Ankara, the  Armenian President stated that  the fact is that either it was  created together with them or Turkey has a huge influence on decision  making. It's obvious.  <The moment Turkey steps back, and eventually  after a while, we will have the ceasefire. Because the parties will  negotiate like before, and there is OSCE Minsk group mediator  countries namely Russia, first of all, and then the United States and  of course France. And there will be a ceasefire. And after a  ceasefire after a while, I hope we can go back to the negotiating  table. Otherwise, there can be the only escalation of this conflict.   No one will win from this war. Neither Europe.  Because the Caucasus  is the Caucasus, it's the connection between Europe and Central Asia  and Eurasia. Now, even China. Because a lot of silk roads go through  the Caucasus as well,> the President stated. 

<And all of this is happening when the world, both China, us,  America, Russia, everybody is fighting the coronavirus. So how  unhuman you must be knowing that sending your soldiers to fight when  you know they will infect each other!  How unhuman you can be while  you are bombing civilians, villages, and states!  You are knowing  that people are trying to be isolated far from each other because  there's a pandemic. So for there are three wars the Armenians in  Nagorno- Karabakh currently face at the same time. One is the  coronavirus. Another is Azerbaijani aggression and the last one is  Turkey who fuels this aggression with its direct involvement,> the  President stressed.