Over the past months, Ankara has allegedly been actively provoking Baku to unleash hostilities, promising political-diplomatic, intelligence and military-technical support.
Sources say that after the completion of the exercises of Ankara and Baku in the summer, a group of Turkish forces allegedly remained in Azerbaijan, which "was called upon to play a coordinating and directing role in planning and conducting an offensive operation in Nagorno-Karabakh."
According to the newspaper, Turkish representatives are also recruiting mercenaries to participate in the battles in Karabakh from groups fighting in Syria and Libya.
According to Kommersant's interlocutors, during the first week of October, up to 1.3 thousand Syrian militants and one group of Libyan mercenaries numbering 150 people were transferred to the conflict zone.
Earlier, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said that the data on the participation of foreign specialists, representatives or troops in military operations on the side of Baku does not correspond to reality.
On September 29, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that Turkey is "actually involved" in the process in Karabkh, noting that the matter concerns military instructors and high-ranking military personnel who are "located in the command posts of Azerbaijan."
In turn, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said that Turkey is not a party to the conflict in Karabakh.
According to him, all rumors about the participation of the Turkish side are "provocative" and are "fake news".
He also denied statements about the participation of mercenaries in the fighting in Karabakh.
As French leader Emmanuel Macron noted, Paris has information that militants from Syria went to Karabakh to take part in the conflict.
At the end of September, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the "Armenian occupation" of Karabakh, calling for the liberation of the "occupied lands of Azerbaijan."
The head of state noted that Ankara will continue to support Baku.