A captured man in the video identified himself as a mercenary trained in Turkey. Screenshot of the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWC78Uqdh_4

02 November 2020, 14:41

Azerbaijan treats video with mercenary from Syria as fake

Baku has treated the Armenia's statement about the capture in Nagorno-Karabakh of a mercenary from Syria fighting for Azerbaijan as falsified. In his turn, Khikmet Gadjiev, an assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, has stated that militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party are fighting on Armenia's side.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has posted a video, in which a captured man identified himself as a mercenary trained in Turkey. The Armenian MoD has stated that a native of the Syrian city of Hama was captured.

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"For a month already, the Armenian party has been trying to prove, with the help of fake videos, that mercenaries are fighting on the Azerbaijani side," Mr Gadjiev has stated.

According to the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, Turkey is recruiting mercenaries in Syria to take part in the Karabakh conflict on the side of Azerbaijan; and ethnic Armenians from Syria and Lebanon are also heading for the war zone.

Mr Gadjiev treats the presented video as fragments glued together. Besides, the man in the video "is dressed in a military uniform similar to the uniform of the Azerbaijani border service."

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 1, 2020 at 03:21 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Faik Medjid Source: CK correspondent

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