Armenia-Azerbaijan: Heavy losses on both sides.
Armenia-Azerbaijan Heavy Clashes including Sukhoi 25 Jet Shot down: Pakistan meddles in clashes.
The incident triggered a 100-year-old dispute between nations about the Nagorno Karabakh place, a conflict urgent appeal to major nation Russia, and the USA to escalate tension also UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres appealed to maintain peace and stop firing. Also, major nations commented such as France, Germany, and Iran. More than 30 tanks, 3 Helicopter, 12 air defense systems were destroyed.
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Armenia-Azerbaijan both accused one another of firing directly each other's territory and they rejected to peace talks. On the west side of the Nagorno Karabakh region, which fierce firing broke out between ethnic Armenian and Muslim Azerbaijan troops on Sunday. Both the countries claiming that" they destroyed each other's tank, helicopters, drones."Last time when clashes took 2 years to escalate, over 1 million people were homeless, 30000 peopled died.
Why is Armenia-Azerbaijan are fighting?
Armenia is an ethnic majority religious country and Azerbaijan is a Muslim country. Modern-day Armenia and Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union in 1920. After, the first world war over three nations got independent Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh Area Google images
In 1920 Joseph Stalin Soviet Leader took over both Armenia and Azerbaijan as Soviet parts. Both the country has a mountain range called the Nagorno-Karabakh with an area of 4400sq km. Traditionally Armenian ethnic people live in this area adding some of the population of Turkish Muslims. Joseph Stalin adds Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan territory Why?
1. Stalin wanted to make disputed territory and small nations fight with each other and USSR always stay as a powerful nation.
2. Another reason is Stalin wanted to keep happy Turkish Muslims, so Turkey can be captured easily.
According to Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh should be Armenian territory. In 1923 Stalin announced Nagorno Karabakh as an autonomous region. However, the region stayed as the Azerbaijan territory where 94% of peoples belong to Armenia. Small level clashes happened many times when both country parts of the USSR, but as the USSR becomes weak after 1985-86, In February 1988, the Nagorno Karabakh assembly passed a resolution for the unification of the predominantly ethnic Armenian territory. The Armenian in Nagorno Karabakh called several times to Armenian authority to control in this region.
In 1991 after the Soviet collapse Nagorno Karabakh announced themselves as an independent region, but the world didn't recognize. In 1992 the war began for the next 2 years in the area. On a religious basis, the war was begun for the next 2 years in 1994 Russia reconciled peace treaty between two nations.
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From an economic place, the mountain Nagorno Karabakh is officially part of Azerbaijan However, the Armenian supporter troops and the Azerbaijan troops fight went on. In 2016 about 120 people killed until July 2020 more sixteen people killed. Azerbaijan has not revealed its military causality, but according to report seven civilians killed in the clash.
Here Turkey President Erdogan said, "Turkey always ready to help Azerbaijan. Russia is a supporter of Armenia. In reality dispute between Russia, and Turkey wants to fight in the fight. Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down an Armenian SU-25 (Russian Made) warplane over Armenian territory on Tuesday in clashes Pilot was killed. But the Turkish government denied the claim from shot down made by them.
Turkey denies because of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) intergovernmental military treaty, alliance that was signed on 15 May 1992 by Armenia with Belarus, Kazakistan, Krygastan, Russia, and Tajikistan. But it's still not active because Azerbaijan signed a treaty with Russia and all nations said that, "Nagorno Karabakh is always disputed and should maintain peace no need to take military action."
Also, Armenia has good relations with Russia and has a Russian military base. Also, Vladimir Putin called it a ceasefire. If Russia involves a dispute with turkey, so NATO alliance, according to article 5 will activate and bring the whole of Europe and the USA into War.
India has good relations with both countries also India's ambitious project to make a railway line Russia to Iran Chabahar port to Mumbai port and this route passes through Azerbaijan. Also, Armenia stands with India on the Kashmir issue.
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