UK Monitor: 64 of the 1200 Syrian ‘Moderate Rebels’ Hired by Turkey for Azerbaijan Are Already KIA
Add the wounded and that is 20-25% of the force in under a week
At least 64 pro-Turkey Syrian rebel fighters have been killed in clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over Nagorno-Karabakh, a Britain-based war monitor said in a new toll on Saturday.
They were among the 1,200 combatants from pro-Ankara Syrian factions that Turkey has sent to fight for the Azeris since last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating its earlier figure of 850.
At least 36 of them have been killed in clashes in the past 48 hours alone, the Observatory added, increasing a previous toll of 28 to 64.
Armenia has accused Turkey of dispatching Syrian fighters to fight on the Azeri side in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, despite Azerbaijani and Turkish denials.
French President Emmanuel Macron demanded Friday that Turkey explain what he said was the arrival of jihadist fighters in Azerbaijan.
Intelligence reports had established that 300 Syrian fighters drawn from “jihadist groups” from the Syrian city [province] of Aleppo had passed through Gaziantep in Turkey en route for Azerbaijan, he said.
In a statement on Saturday, the Syrian foreign ministry warned of “blatant Turkish interference” in the conflict.
“It aims to inflame the situation in a manner that is consistent with the Turkish regime’s behaviour in more than one country, where it has created tension and fuelled the fire of sedition,” said the statement, carried by the official SANA news agency.
Clashes have raged between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces since Sunday over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from Baku in a bitterly fought war in the 1990s.
Source: AFP
That’s because they’re being used as shock troops by the Azeris, saving their own forces (and casualties) while the Ottomans provide air support. The Armenian lines are collapsing now and they’re abandoning armour and artillery as the Azeri-Ottoman-headchopper alliance advances from North and South.
https://southfront.org/turkey-and-azerbaijan-setting-up-diplomatic-ground-for-seucring-desired-victory-in-war-with-armenia/
Soon Nagorno Karabakh will be in danger of being cut off and at that point a mass civilian exodus into Armenia is inevitable. Also when that happens there won’t be anyone willing to fight for a lost cause. And yet Pashinyan hasn’t even recognised Artsakh, which *might* have given him some kind of legal basis for appealing for Russian support (which in any case Putin doesn’t look interested in providing). So at that point Pashinyan will blame Russia for not helping stave off the defeat and run to join NATO, while the Ottoman-jihadi alliance will occupy Nagorno Karabakh to “protect it from Armenia”. What a state of affairs.
You CAN’T FIX STUPID !
He may deliberately want to lose. That’ll remove the territorial dispute that would normally block Armenian entry into NATO.