Turkey's Erdogan meets Azerbaijan's Aliyev as Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh

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64% : Blinken additionally called for Azerbaijan to "protect civilians and uphold its obligation to respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh and to ensure its forces comply with international humanitarian law."
63% : Similarly, Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed US "support for Armenia's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity" and expressed "the United States' deep concern for the ethnic population in Nagorno-Karabakh," according to a readout of his call with Pashinyan Saturday.
57% : Iran sees the retaking of Karabakh by Azerbaijan as the most serious step in the establishment of the Zangezour corridor, said Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
53% : "That corridor as perceived in Iran is going to deprive Iran of a very serious geopolitical advantage, which is direct land access to Armenia and also the leverage it had over Azerbaijan over its access to Nakhichevan," Azizi told Al-Monitor.
51% : Armenia has rejected those terms, saying this would amount to an effective occupation of Armenian territory that would separate the country from its borders with Iran, its sole ally in the region.
49% : "Lonely at the topUSAID director Samantha Powers, a passionate advocate of recognition of the 1915 genocide of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, arrived in Yerevan today together with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Yuri Kim, as first reported by Reuters.
46% : Iran has repeatedly declared any such effort a red line and has carried out military exercises along the border.
43% : Israel, alongside Turkey, provided weapons and military advisers to Azerbaijan in the 2020 war, and Iran believes that the Jewish state is using Azerbaijan as a staging post to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
42% : But he did not condemn Azerbaijani aggression either, likely because of the role the country plays in helping to contain Iran.

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