Azerbaijan denies Armenian claims on deployment of Syrian fighters as "baseless and provocation"
"Rumours of fighters from Syria allegedly being redeployed to Azerbaijan is another provocation by the Armenian side and complete nonsense," Khikmet Gadzhiev -- an aide to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev -- said in his comments as denying the latest claims made by the Armenian side.
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- Reuters
- Published Date: 01:18 | 28 September 2020
- Modified Date: 06:47 | 28 September 2020
An aide to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev denied on Monday that Turkey had sent fighters from Syria to Azerbaijan amid fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia's ambassador to Russia said earlier that Turkey had sent around 4,000 fighters from northern Syria to Azerbaijan and that they were taking part in the fighting, the Interfax and RIA news agencies reported.
"Rumours of fighters from Syria allegedly being redeployed to Azerbaijan is another provocation by the Armenian side and complete nonsense," said the aide, Khikmet Gadzhiev.
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