YEREVAN

A personal police guard has been given to a Turkish-origin German politician who has received multiple death threats after the Bundestag's approval of a resolution recognizing the World War I-era killings of Anatolian Armenians at the hands of Ottomans as "genocide."

Armenia said May 5 that it may consider formally recognizing the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, in a move that would increase tensions with Azerbaijan just a month after clashes over the disputed territory claimed 110 lives.

Two ethnic Armenian soldiers have been killed in a new upsurge in fighting between Azerbaijani forces and separatists from the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the separatists said on April 26.

Russia on April 22 denounced Turkey's position on the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno Karabakh region after a Russian-mediated cease-fire ended the worst clashes in decades in the breakaway enclave.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to establish a working group in an effort to settle the long-running conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said April 12.

The OIC will be more decisive on the occupied Karabakh topic, Çavu?o?lu told journalists after a meeting of OIC foreign ministers in Istanbul.        

Armenia and Azerbaijan on April 9 traded accusations over the shelling of each other's territory in violation of a days-old cease-fire aimed at halting a flareup of violence over the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region.

The two former-Soviet neighbors exchanged fire overnight but there were no reports of casualties.

Azerbaijan has shown that it is a strong country by responding to the heated conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to the country's energy minister, who added that Azerbaijan's main aim was to solve the dispute with diplomatic efforts.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on April 6 accused Russia of siding with Armenia in the conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, saying Moscow was meddling as it had in Ukraine and Syria.

Erdo?an also accused Armenia of not sticking to a truce with Turkey's ally Azerbaijan in the territory.

The ceasefire in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh seems to have largely been restored after Azerbaijan and the Armenian separatists reached an agreement to cease hostilities on Tuesday.

This development comes after the outbreak of fighting at the end of last week, which represented the most serious surge in violence in the past two decades.

Turkey backs Azerbaijan in the heated conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, where a cease-fire has been reached after four days of clashes, with Turkish president and prime minister expressing their vociferous support for Baku.