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Someday Erdogan will definitely tell you how he “entered Armenia”

July 30 2024, 12:00

As they say, “there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed”, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatening Israel due to the escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, cited Turkey’s participation in the wars in Karabakh and Libya as an example of “the successful deployment of Turkish troops.”

To say that Erdogan said something new would be a mistake. Back in the days of the 44-day war, a number of sources reported that the Turkish side was involved in the conflict (600 military personnel, including a battalion tactical group of 200 people, 50 instructors in Nakhichevan, 90 military advisers in Baku, 120 members of flight technical staff at Gabala airbase, 20 drone operators at Dallar airfield, 50 instructors at Yevlakh airfield, 50 instructors in the 4th Army Corps (Perekeshkul), and 20 people at the naval base and the Heydar Aliyev Military Lyceum in Baku). This group included 18 infantry fighting vehicles, one multiple launch rocket system, ten units of vehicles, and up to 34 units of aviation equipment, including 6 aircraft, 8 helicopters, and 20 drones, providing military intelligence both in the Karabakh region and on the territory of Armenia. A few months before the beginning of the conflict, Ankara actively provoked the outbreak of hostilities under Baku’s promises of comprehensive political, diplomatic, intelligence, military, and technical support.

So, Erdogan, wanting to get from Aliyev what he wanted in exchange for support in 2020, speaking about a potential invasion of Israel, mentioned the Armenian Karabakh.

The fact that Erdogan’s words had a clear message addressed to Ilham Aliyev was also confirmed by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, which almost immediately released a message, noting that “statements about the participation of military personnel of any country in hostilities related to the restoration of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan are baseless.”

Erdogan and Aliyev are clearly at odds about “something”, and most likely we are talking about the so-called “Zangezur corridor”. What is important in this context is that it is confirmed at the highest level that Turkey was directly involved in the 2020 conflict. Was it only 2020?

For some reason, many people forgot or overlooked how, before the ethnic cleansing in Artsakh and the expulsion of Armenians from Artsakh in 2023, one of the Turkish media spread information about Erdogan’s phone conversation with Pashinyan, which preceded the war that began on September 19, from which it became clear that the Armenian leadership was aware of the expected events. Now do you understand why Pashinyan’s army silently observed how the Artsakh people were killed and how they left their homeland through the Lachin corridor, and what role Erdogan played in all this?

There is another interesting point. When will Erdogan finally talk about how and when they “entered Armenia”, which allowed them to enter Karabakh? The events of 2018, 2020, and 2023 now look very different as Erdogan makes “revelations”…

Think about it…