The Turkish presidency said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday that Armenia must be persuaded to negotiate with Azerbaijan in the conflict over the Nagorno Karabakh region, and called for a peaceful solution.
The Turkish presidency added in a statement that Erdogan told Putin that Armenia should withdraw from the Azerbaijani territories it occupies, and stated that the Armenian leadership must be persuaded to sit at the negotiating table.
In the same context, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he was happy to hear good news about the Karabakh region during his conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, stressing that "victory is approaching."
This came in a speech by Erdogan during his participation in the seventh conference of the ruling Justice and Development Party in the state of Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey, in which he confirmed that Azerbaijan is regaining its lands after it remained 30 years "under Armenian occupation."
Erdogan indicated that his country is in Syria, Libya and Azerbaijan, stressing that Turkey will be "against imperialists and oppressors."
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, during which they discussed the issue of the region.
Macron and Putin
On the other hand, French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin renewed their emphasis in a phone call today on the "need to end the fighting" in Nagorny Karabakh, where violent confrontations are taking place between Azerbaijani forces and the fighters of the separatist republic, according to the Elysee.
The French presidency stated that the two presidents "discussed in detail the crisis in Nagorno Karabakh and agreed on the necessity of ending the fighting in order to allow a return to negotiations on a realistic basis."
She added that the main goal is "to ensure the survival of the Armenian population on this land and to end the suffering of the civilian population."
It is reported that at least a thousand people have been killed in the fighting that has lasted for about 6 weeks in the region, which is an internationally recognized mountain enclave as part of Azerbaijan but inhabited and controlled by Armenians.