Armenia submitted an Inter-State Application against Turkey with the  ECHR

ArmInfo.On 9 May 2021 the Government of the Republic of Armenia submitted an Inter-State Application against Turkey with the European Court of Human Rights  claiming a number of Convention violations by Turkey by means of  recruiting and transporting Syrian Mercenaries to Azerbaijan and  providing military support to Azerbaijan during the 44-day war.

As the press service of Armenia's representation in ECHR informs, in  particular, the Armenian Government claims that during the 44-day war  Turkey has violated the right to life, prohibition of torture and  inhuman treatment, the right to liberty, the right to property, the  right to personal and family life, as well as a number of other  Convention rights of the population of Artsakh and Armenia. The  Government has submitted extensive evidence with regard to the  recruitment and transfer of Syrian mercenaries by Turkey to the  Republic of Azerbaijan, evidence regarding the supply of military  equipment, weapons and ammunition to the Azerbaijani army, as well as  other evidence on its involvement to the war.

It should be noted that after Azerbaijan's large-scale military  aggression against Artsakh in September- November 2020, a number of  media outlets wrote about hundreds of Syrian militants associated  with Turkey deployed to Karabakh and about the readiness to send  "hundreds more" mercenaries to the Karabakh conflict zone.

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad then stated that militants from Syria  are being transferred 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 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 numerous factual evidence  of their involvement in hostilities, denied their participation in  the aggression.  And the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted  that the number of militants participating in the conflict is in the  thousands. According to some reports, the militants continue to stay  in the territories of Artsakh occupied by Azerbaijan to this day.