heavy fighting between armenia and
azerbaijan has continued for another day
in the disputed region of
nagorno-karabakh
it comes as the turkish president called
on armenia to
immediately withdraw they in turn have
warned that ankara's involvement could
destabilize the region
nagorno-karabakh is considered part of
azerbaijan by the international
community
but has been under armenian control
since the 1990s
the conflict in the caucasus mountains
has remained unresolved for more than
three decades
with periodic bouts of fighting martial
law has been declared amid the violence
in some parts of azerbaijan as well as
in armenia and
nagorno-karabakh russia the united
states and the united
nations have all called for an immediate
ceasefire and talks to stabilize the
situation meanwhile
the turkish president president recep
tayyip erdogan continues to pledge his
country's full support
to the government in azerbaijan here's
what recep tayyip erdogan had to say in
the last hour
i condemn once again armenia which has
attacked azerbaijan's territory
turkey will continue to support its
friend and brother
wholeheartedly and with whatever means
are possible
it is time to end the crisis in this
region
this region will once again have peace
and calm
following the swift abandonment of all
azerbaijan's territories
any measures or propositions beside this
will be unfair
and unjust president
erdogan there well i'm joined now by zol
gassimov
from the university of bonn who analyzes
relations between russia
and turkey so thank you very much for
joining us let's just talk about
why this is actually happening right now
we had a flare-up
in july but why do you think this is all
escalating at the moment
i can just second it uh indeed uh we had
several flare-ups in july
four years ago also and uh two days ago
but what is new
of this flare up is a dimension and
um i mean we we should accept that that
the international community
the means group of the organization of
security and collective security
um that exists since
30 years failed to find a solution
uh a peaceful solution for the conflict
and
what we see now that the format of the
means group
is going to be changed so uh i guess
russia would uh would take the
initiative
and bring both sides to the to the
dialogue
and find it for russia it's not just the
initiative is it it wants to be a
significant player
in all of this in terms of uh having
influence on both sides
it is a significant player i would even
say that if the most significant player
i mean look
there are three co-chairs of the men's
group france
u.s and russian federation but uh the
russian
minister foreign affairs phoned
yesterday um azerbaijani armenian
counterpart his turkish counterpart
there is no information about any talks
with the french and the u.s colleagues
and that would be the logic of the means
group but it was not the case
and uh what the press secretary of uh
the russian president told today
that russia is keeps touch with with
ankara
on this issue so how is uh
russia or moscow reacting uh to to the
way that
ankara is is speaking about this
conflict
and and saying that they will put their
full support behind azerbaijan
i don't i don't see here any uh
contradiction
uh moscow uh cooperates with ankara
quite
successfully in uh syria somehow also in
libya the interests are different
but there is a cooperation also uh with
some extent in iraq
and azerbaijani armenian conflict the
area of the nagorno-karabakh
would become the new platform for
turkish russian
uh cooperation okay we'll have to leave
it there zoro agassimov thank you very
much for joining us
thank you