ArmInfo. Any appeasement policy only encourages Erdogan to make great Ottoman adventures. For diplomacy to make sense, the supply of arms to Ankara must first be stopped. The popular German Neues Deutschland newspaper writes about this in an editorial written by the editor of the publication Peter Steiniger.
According to the author, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg too politely calls on Turkey, a NATO member, to use its influence over Azerbaijan, but more efforts should be made to put out the fire in Nagorno-Karabakh. The author believes that a return to a hot war in a long-frozen conflict between the two post-Soviet states is part of Erdogan's expansionist policy in the South Caucasus, "based on his pact with the oil autocrat in Baku."
At one time, the author of the article notes, in recent history, Armenians were victims of bloody persecutions by fanatics. Their heirs are now dropping bombs on Stepanakert. Turkey is no longer only secretly and with Islamist mercenaries, but also with regular armed forces on the side of Azerbaijan. Without a quick return to the ceasefire, the Karabakh conflict will escalate into a war that threatens to infect the entire region.