ArmInfo.Moscow discusses the participation of Syrian militants in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh with Ankara. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters about this.
According to him, Moscow raised this issue during discussion with the Turkish side. "We are discussing all issues," Bogdanov said.
The diplomat also said that the Russian side expresses its position to Turkey that the involvement of Syrian militants in the Karabakh conflict is unacceptable, RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier, RIA Novosti, citing a source, reported that Turkey again sent Syrian militants to fight in Nagorno- Karabakh. "More than a thousand people were sent to the region on October 16. In addition, another batch is being prepared for dispatch," the source said.
Earlier, on October 14, The Wall Street Journal wrote about hundreds of Syrian militants associated with Turkey deployed to Karabakh and about the readiness to send "hundreds more" of militias to the Karabakh conflict zone. The Washington Post wrote on the same day about the deaths of 52 Syrian mercenaries in the Karabakh conflict zone.
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad said that militants from Syria are being deployed to Karabakh, and Turkey is using terrorists from Syria and other countries in Nagorno-Karabakh.
In turn, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, also reported that, according to the information available to the Service, mercenaries from international terrorist organizations fighting in the Middle East are actively pulling into the conflict zone, and we are talking about hundreds and even thousands of radicals.
French President Emmanuel Macron also spoke about the transfer of 300 Syrian militants across Turkey to Baku in early October.
The leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkey, despite providing overwhelming factual evidence of their involvement in the hostilities, continue to claim that they do not use the services of mercenaries.