A man prays in Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha, Azerbaijan after it was partly destroyed by shelling in October 2020. | Christian Solidarity International
A new report by International Christian Concern accuses Muslim-majority Turkey and Azerbaijan of having an intent to commit “genocide” when they launched a weeks-long military offensive in an ethnic Armenian territory last year.
ICC, a U.S.-based advocacy organization, published the new report “The Anatomy of Genocide: Karabakh s Forty-Four Day War” last Friday.
The report asserts that the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (known as the Republic of Artsakh in Armenia), which lasted from September until November 2020, had strong religious freedom concerns that should alarm human rights advocates and governments worldwide.
Last Updated On: Dec 18 2020 01:33 Gmt+3
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seemed unusually calm in the days leading up to last week’s European Union summit, in which the bloc’s leaders were to discuss sanctions against Turkey.
“The EU s proposed sanctions on Turkey would not be a major problem for us,” Erdoğan told reporters on Dec. 9, before flying to Azerbaijan.
He most probably knew, after a series of behind the door chats, or intel, that what his government faced was a paper tiger. And he was right. To hell with the critics, whining that he was turning more dictatorial by every day.