Ganja city, Azerbaijan
Armenia continues to kill civilians in Azerbaijan, including children, during the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced this on his Twitter.
He accused Yerevan of war crimes and stressed that Ankara will always be on the side of Baku in this conflict. “Silence about this cruelty means complicity in these killings. Those who lack humanity will pay for these crimes, ”the diplomat said.
Earlier, Azerbaijan announced the death of ten civilians as a result of shelling of the city of Ganja by the united armed forces of Armenia and the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).
Yerevan and NKR regularly deny reports of Baku shelling of civilian infrastructure, including the city of Ganja. The only time the allegations of shelling were confirmed was on 4 October. Then the press secretary of the NKR President Vahram Poghosyan announced that the armed forces struck at Ganja and destroyed the military airfield. The strike was a response to the fierce shelling of the capital of the unrecognized republic of Stepanakert, including with the help of drones.
The hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh have been going on since September 27, when Azerbaijan announced the beginning of a counter-offensive operation in response to enemy shelling and brought its troops into the territory of the unrecognized republic. Armenia, participating in them as a guarantor of the NKR's security, announced on the second day that its territory was also subjected to shelling, and also indicated that Turkey had intervened in the conflict. Ankara and Baku have denied this for a long time. On October 10, the parties, with the mediation of Moscow, concluded a truce, but they broke it almost immediately.
