Al-Monitor Article Rating

Turkey backs Azerbaijan in deadly attacks against Armenia

Sep 14, 2022 View Original Article
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    10% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "The idea of establishing the Zangezour corridor, as presented and pursued by Azerbaijani officials, would deprive Iran from two important geopolitical advantages," said Hamidreza Azizi, a CATS fellow at the German Institute for International and Security affairs who focuses on Iran's relations with Turkey.
50% : For decades, Iran would use Azerbaijan's reliance on the Iranian route to Nakhichevan as leverage over Baku, Azizi told Al-Monitor.
48% : Tehran mostly counted on Russia to oppose Baku's plans.
47% :Iran is every bit as wary of Azerbaijan's demands.
44% : Ominously, Azerbaijani attacks are concentrated in southern areas close to Iran.
38% : However, a corridor running along the current Iranian-Armenian border would "be a geopolitical catastrophe" for Iran.
35% : Azerbaijan's real intention, many fear, is to occupy those lands and in doing so effectively cut off Iran from Armenia.
34% : "I don't see any real means Iran could resort to in order to reverse the situation, if it's going to happen," Azizi noted.
33% : I really don't expect Iran to go to war with Azerbaijan over this issue," Azizi concluded.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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