Nagorno-Karabakh

Turkey has said it will continue to stand with Azerbaijan in its ongoing dispute with Armenia, calling the latter to cease disruptive and destabilizing policies in the south Caucasus.

Turkey on March 30 called Armenia's attempt to hold elections in the occupied Upper Karabakh region "a flagrant violation of international law."

A deputy from the People's Democratic Party (HDP) on Feb. 25 called for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia. 

Paylan, himself being of Armenian descent, proposed to establish "justice and reality commissions" related to "disasters" between the two countries.

Turkey condemned on Feb. 26 the Khojaly massacre that saw killings of hundreds of Azerbaijani citizens at the hands of Armenian forces, marking the event's 28th anniversary.

Azerbaijan's president on Feb. 15 said the Upper Karabakh issue cannot be resolved in a day and there is a need to resolve the conflict in phases.

The visit of the Bulgarian MPs Valeri Simeonov and Yordan Apostolov to the occupied territory of Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh and their meeting there with representatives of the illegal separatist regime is a direct violation of international law, Azerbaijani MP from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party Elman Nasirov told Trend.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on March 14 called on the international community to exert pressure on Armenia to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalın on Feb. 25 remembered the victims of the Khojaly Massacre, which took place in 1992 in Azerbaijan’s now-occupied region of Karabakh during the war with Armenia.

Bosnia's Foreign Ministry on Monday confirmed that Milica Markovic, an MP in the House of Representatives and a member of parliament's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was being investigated for possible corruption.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Armenia's howitzer attack on Azerbaijan's Fuzuli region on July 4.