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Valérie Toranian: "Armenia, obstacle to Erdogan's appetites"

2021-11-05T21:31:00.711Z


INTERVIEW - A year ago, Armenia, attacked by Azerbaijan armed by Turkey, lost Nagorno-Karabakh at the end of a terrible war. In a short combat text *, the journalist underlines how much it is in France's interest to support Yerevan.


LE FIGARO.

- In the fall of 2020, Armenia lost its historic Nagorno-Karabakh sanctuary following the conflict.

One year later, what is the situation?

Valerie TORANIAN.

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This Azerbaijani aggression was devastating for Armenia. Turkey-backed Azerbaijan used phosphorus bombs (banned by conventions) and military combat drones that pulverized Armenian lines. It was Verdun versus Star Wars. Several thousand jihadists fought on the front line as mercenaries paid by Turkey. The death toll is 4,000, thousands of seriously handicapped wounded on the Armenian side. As Human Rights Watch has denounced, there are still dozens of prisoners of war in the hands of the Azeris who Baku is slowly releasing. The treatment of prisoners during the conflict, with videos of torture and humiliation, mutilation of corpses proudly posted on social networks, plunges the families of the missing soldiers

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Source: lefigaro

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