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An Armenian Su-25 plane has been shot down in the middle of the war escalation between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

From the Armenian side they assure

that the demolition was the work of a Turkish fighter

in a joint operation with the Azerbaijani aviation.

According to the spokeswoman, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, it was specifically an F-16 fighter from the Turkish Air Force.

Turkey immediately denied the Armenian version, as did Azerbaijan.

Both sides are accused of having started this spiral of war

, unprecedented since April 2016. Hours earlier, Turkey said it was determined to help Azerbaijan to "regain its occupied lands" in Nagorno Karabakh, where intense fighting is taking place between Azerbaijanis and separatists supported by Armenia.

Turkey insists that Armenia is illegally occupying the Nagorno Karabakh region using separatists, who oppose Baku and self-proclaimed a republic in 1991

taking advantage of the dissolution of the Soviet Union

.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an end to the Armenian "occupation" of the enclave to end the intense fighting between separatists, supported by Yerevan, and Azerbaijani troops, reports AFP.

The downed Armenian Su-25 pilot died,

adding one more person to the death toll

since the military escalation that began on Sunday and that exceeds fifty victims.

According to the version of the Armenian spokesperson,

the Turkish fighter took off from the Ganja military base

, in Azerbaijan, and supported the Azerbaijani aviation.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry called the accusations "a new fantasy of the Armenian propaganda machine."

Yerevan has accused Azerbaijan of extending the armed confrontation

beyond the separatist enclave of Nagorno Karabakh by

attacking Armenian territory with the support also of alleged "Turkish drones".

The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict dates back to the late 1980s, when the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno Karabakh, populated mainly by Armenians,

requested its incorporation into neighboring Armenia in a referendum rejected by Baku

.

A war broke out immediately, causing some 30,000 deaths.

Baku lost control of Karabakh and seven adjacent districts after hostilities between 1992 and 1994. Azerbaijan insists on regaining its territorial integrity, while Armenia claims that it defends the interests of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabakh, although it wishes to annex that territory.

The Armenian authorities and the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabakh

declared on Sunday a general mobilization of forces

and martial law in their territories.

On the same day, Baku imposed martial law and a curfew in some areas, and on Monday a partial mobilization was declared.

Armenia is ready to activate the political and military mechanisms of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) if the conflict in Karabakh spreads to other territories, declared the country's representative in the organization, Víctor Biyágov.

Members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), founded in 2002, are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.

For now, the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinián, has canceled the visit of the Armenian delegation in Russia to

a meeting of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission

for military and technical cooperation.

The main fear is that the conflict will spread.

But Turkey's direct military interference in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is unlikely, as the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan outnumber those of Armenia, Turkish economist and political scientist Aydin Sezer told the Russian agency Sputnik.

In addition,

the Turkish economy is going through a difficult period

, which is why the country's participation in a serious military conflict would have unpredictable economic consequences.

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