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  • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

    Originally posted by HyeFighter2 View Post
    Idiots.....IDIOTS.....

    Anyone whether this video is authentic, if the soldier is actually Armenian, and if so, what happened to him?

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      Soldier of Azerbaijani Army shoots himself

      [ 01 March 2013 10:14 ]
      Goychay. Elvin Yagubov – APA. The Azerbaijani army has lost one more soldier.

      APA reports that Shamkir Military Compound soldier serving in Gazakh military unit, resident of Kurdamish village of Goychay region 23-year old Allahverdiyev Seymur Murvat committed suicide by shooting himself with the service gun yesterday.

      Seymur Allahverdiyev would have finished his military service in April, 2013.
      The soldier’s body has been handed over to his family in Goychay this morning. The fact is under investigation.

      Defense Ministry’s press service told APA that criminal case had been launched on the fact. The causes of the suicide are being investigated.
      apa.az

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          • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

            Originally posted by Mher View Post
            Anyone whether this video is authentic, if the soldier is actually Armenian, and if so, what happened to him?
            I think it's an old incident (the video is uploaded in 2011) where 3 soldiers were captured by Azeris. These 3 (or 1-2 of them) have since been sent to a third country.
            Azerbaboon: 9.000 Google hits and counting!

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            • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

              Originally posted by Federate View Post
              I think it's an old incident (the video is uploaded in 2011) where 3 soldiers were captured by Azeris. These 3 (or 1-2 of them) have since been sent to a third country.
              he says we wanted to go home,but we came to you (azeris) haha wtf, BUT, he also says he served only 13 days, is it posible??? you need to serve 12 month to be on frontline

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              • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

                INTENSIFICATION OF RUSSIA-TURKEY INDIRECT MILITARY AND POLITICAL CONFRONTATION
                Sergei Sargsyan


                25.02.2013

                Deputy Head of the Center for Political Studies, "Noravank" Foundation,
                Senior Expert

                The relationship of Russia and Turkey in the periods when they
                were in the state of war resemble a game of mult-iboard military
                and political chess on the geographically separated boards, and
                each game has its logic, its intrigue, its pieces but they all are
                interconnected and constitute a part of the same big mosaic. Moreover,
                the more independent extra-alliance foreign political activity Ankara
                demonstrates the more often and more vividly its policy confronts
                the interests of Moscow.

                The elements of indirect confrontation can be observed with different
                intensity fr om Moldova, Crimea, North and South Caucasus to Ural
                and Central Asia. In recent two years Syria has become a new point
                of collision of interests.

                Russia is very interested first of all in continuing and
                intensification of exploitation of their naval base in Tartus and
                preserving the Syrian arms and military tenchnics market for the
                production of the their military industrial complex.

                Turkey's interests are conditioned by the fact that this country
                tends to stir up its foreign policy in all the directions, especially
                within the boarders of the former Ottoman Empire. And the goals of
                this country in Syria are as follows:

                - not to allow using the regions of Syria tensely populated by the
                Kurds as rear bases for Kurdish Workers' Party;

                - not to allow the KWP somehow to receive modern arms and ammunition
                fr om the Syrian army depots;

                - to remove fr om power the Alewi elite of the Syrian Arab Republic;

                - to counter Iran thus targeting to become an ultimate leader in the
                region, etc.

                Their main goal is not to prejudice interests of Russia; simply
                objectively and despite the goals of Turkey they do prejudice these
                interests.

                Turkey's (as well as Israel's) logic of action is based on
                the conclusion of irreversibility of destabilization of domestic
                political situation in Syria, its transition into a state of permanent
                instability with a tendency of a critical growth of social-economic
                and political problems.

                Today the opposition confronting the Bashar Assad's regime consists of:

                - Syrian Free Army,

                - Militants of "Muslim Brothers" movement,

                - Radicals and jihadists from "Al-Qaida"

                - Independently acting small, disjointed groups.

                Each of them has the support base of its own as well as established
                help channels from abroad. These groups generally and particularly are
                ready to form temporary and situational alliances on the assumption
                of their tactical interests. They mainly comprise of volunteers and
                mercenaries from mostly Sunnite countries.

                In such situation without a reliably closed borders, which is almost
                unrealizable in case with Syria, it is still possible to reduce the
                activity of the radicals but the authorities of Syria can hardly
                achieve profound victory over them. They still have enough material,
                financial and human resources in order to keep "swinging" the domestic
                political situation in the state. Gradual accumulation of the mental
                fatigue from long civil war, terrorist activity of different groups
                of different ideological orientation, deterioration of social and
                economic situation will direct the ways of solution of the crisis in
                the way of changing the current leadership.

                But even the controlled and abate Islamization of Syria (as they
                hope in the West) in the form of anti-Assad democratization of the
                country, on the pattern of both Turkey and Egypt, will inevitably
                bring to the worsening of the state of Alawis, Christians and Kurds
                in Syria. As a result, the Armenian Diaspora in Syria is interested
                in stabilization of situation in the country on the assumption of
                preserving the current ruling elite (the option Russia insists on).

                The naval exercises in the water area of the Mediterranean and Black
                Seas, in which 20 ships and 3 submarines, including one nuclear
                submarine, of at once three fleets - Black Sea, Baltic Sea and
                North Sea (among them major anti-submarine ship of North Sea fleet
                "Severomorsk", major assault landing ships of the Black Sea fleet
                "Azov", "Saratov" and guards guided missile cruiser "Moskva") -
                participated were a manifestation of the support of Damascus and
                non-admission of coercive displacement of B. Assad. As the Minister of
                Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov said: "We are not interested
                in even more destabilization of the Mediterranean region and presence
                of our fleet there is an unconditional factor of stabilization of
                the situation"1.

                And in case of final destabilization and disintegration of the country,
                appearance of the Alawi-Christian state on the Mediterranean shore
                looks more preferable than final displacement of the Syrian Armenians
                from Syria on the model of some other Middle East countries.

                Turkey, taking advantage of mortaring of its border areas from the
                adjacent Syrian territories, wh ere intensive fights between the
                government forces and militants were proceeding, did not restrict
                itself to artillery shelling of the positions of the Syrian army
                in response, (complicity of the Syrian governmental forcers to
                the incidents was not proved) and requested from its NATO partners
                assistance and deployment of antiaircraft defense facilities.

                According to the official version temporally and exclusively for
                covering of the Southern border with Syria, totally 6 "Patriot"
                anti-missile defense systems were supplied to Turkey (by two from
                the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands), and since the late January
                they have come on alert.

                The places of their deployment are remarkable - near the cities of
                Adana (about 120km from the Syrian border), Kahramanmaras (about 90km)
                and Gaziantep (about 45km). Taking into consideration the range of
                engagement which does not go beyond 80km, it can be assumed that
                the priority mission of "Patriot" anti-missile defense systems will
                be rather covering protection of the NATO military objects and in
                particular "Incirlik" air base than the near-border population centers
                of country.

                But the prospects of delivering a massive strike to the territory
                of Turkey by Syria, especially under the ongoing domestic political
                military conflict, are practically equal to zero and it is nothing but
                a suicide for B. Assad. But the attempts by the Syrian militants and
                the powers which support them in order to provoke Turkey and NATO into
                taking counter measures against the Syrian government forces cannot be
                excluded either. This is especially remarkable against the background
                of information of a Syrian "Al-Vatan" newspaper about an attempt of a
                covert penetration of four Turkish fighter-pilots2 with the assistance
                of a group of armed militants to the "Koerc" military airport (Aleppo
                province), which was denied by the Turkish General Staff on the same
                day3 and as it seems even without checking this information.

                Besides Syria, the changing of the place of the second panel session
                of the High Level Strategic Partnership Council from Baku to Ghabala
                became an unpleasant demarche for Russia on behalf of Turkey and
                Azerbaijan. The meeting wh ere the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
                and the prime-minister of Turkey Recep Tayiip Erdogan were present
                resulted in "singing of seven documents which, by their importance,
                did not correspond to the high level of the meeting"4.

                Those were documents on metrology, TV companies, cargo transportation,
                rescue services and seed industry.

                Against the background of setting forth unacceptable for Russia
                conditions by Azerbaijan on continuing exploitation of Ghabala
                Radar Station and initiation of evacuation of the military staff and
                operational personnel and their families, it has become not only a
                pinnacle to Moscow but also a vivid manifestation of final shift of
                foreign policy priorities by Baku.

                One of the sounded reasons of suspending cooperation with Russia
                in terms of Ghabala Radar has become the fact that it covers mainly
                Muslim and brotherly states to Azerbaijan, including Turkey. Meanwhile
                Turkey signed on September 14, 2011 a memorandum with the US on
                the deployment of AN/TPY-2 Radar System (old name - FBR-T - Forward
                Based Radar -Transportable) intended for detecting ballistic missiles
                early in their flight, identifying and tracking them. It is meant
                to provide the tracking information to the U.S. Navy ships which
                are equipped with <<Aegis>> missile-defense systems and which will
                realize its direct interception. Not long after that the radar was
                deployed in the region of Kuluncak of Turkish Malatya province. But
                in the opinion of Russian experts one of the main goals of this radar
                which can detect and identify objects at the distance of 2000km is the
                control of the air space of South Caucasus, part of Central Asia as
                well as the Southern part of Russia, thus tracking the experimental
                launches of the Russian missiles from the test fields.

                One way or another, deployment of the U.S. anti-missile defense radar
                and "Patriot" missiles in Turkey will become a handy excuse for Russia
                to equip its 102nd military base, deployed on the territory of Armenia,
                by the forces and facilities of both electronic and fire suppression
                of the anti-aircraft defense and anti-missile defense systems.

                During the visit of the Minister of Defense of Russia S. Shoygu in
                late January 2013, once again the parties confirmed their aspiration
                to strengthen joint security, as well as military-political and
                military-technical partnership directed among other aims to not
                allowing the military ways of resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
                conflict.

                The proposal made by the Russian Naval Chief Command on the
                strengthening of the 25th separate missile battalion of the 11th
                separate coast missile-artillery brigade (Utash population center,
                near the city of Anapa, Krasnodar Region, RF) by the forth squadron of
                "Bastion" mobile coastal missile systems which will enter service in
                2014, fitly works with the asymmetric response of Russia.

                The system is capable of hitting naval surface ships and vessels of all
                the types and classes, both separate targets and amphibian, carrier and
                strike groups under the fire and electronic countermeasures. "Bastion"
                is capable of hitting the targets at the distance of 300km5 by "Onix"
                anti-ship missiles and to cover from the amphibian operations of the
                enemy 600km of coast.

                This will adjust the balance of naval forces which was changed not in
                Russia's favour after the division of the Black Sea Fleet and economic
                difficulties of the last two decades. Besides the NATO ships which
                periodically put in the Black Sea water area (except of coarse the
                Navies of Bulgaria and Romania), there are no more potential targets
                for "Bastion" than the ships of the Turkish navy.

                * * *

                At the same time available and deepening indirect discrepancies in
                military and political sphere, in due form of Eastern diplomacy,
                are accompanied by direct political and diplomatic activity and
                development of mutually beneficial economic cooperation. A number of
                measures directed to starting construction of the offshore part of
                "South Stream" gas pipeline are taken; the negotiations on increasing
                natural gas supply to Turkey up to 3 billion m3 are hold; the commodity
                turnover is growing (by 11% in 2012, up to $33 billion).

                Moreover, invitation to Ankara to join Eurasian integration project
                became a new stage in the relations of two countries, though Turkey
                has almost no chances to become a full-fledged member of a forming
                Eurasian Union due to the same reasons as its entering European Union.

                Any other status intends subordinated position of a junior partner
                which suits fine to Moscow, Astana and Minsk but not Ankara.

                And though in order to create real counterpoise or to balance
                virtually the "western" vector of the foreign policy Ankara will tend
                to strengthen or at least to imitate strengthening of "eastern" vector,
                it will mainly focus on more flexible geopolitical project in which
                Russia accumulates more problems and contradictions and wh ere it is
                not an ultimate leader, i.e. in Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
                Hayastan or Bust.

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                  • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia &amp; Azerbaijan

                    Originally posted by Federate View Post
                    I think it's an old incident (the video is uploaded in 2011) where 3 soldiers were captured by Azeris. These 3 (or 1-2 of them) have since been sent to a third country.
                    thank you

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                    • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia &amp; Azerbaijan

                      The Azerbaijani government has stated that if Baku chooses to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict via wide-scale military operations, it will face Russian soldiers rather than Armenian, its neighboring country which currently controls occupied Azerbaijani territories.

                      “President Ilham Aliyev has always promised a military solution to the [Nagorno-Karabakh] conflict and he still has the issue on the agenda. The option of a military solution is always on the table, but the most important thing is how this kind of operation will be carried out. We need to become much stronger so that if we become involved in combat in Nagorno-Karabakh we can stand up to Russian troops, because that is who we will have to face. Did Armenia occupy our territories? Do you think Armenia's power is sufficient for that?” asked Ali Hasanov, Azerbaijan's deputy prime minister, in a press conference held with a group of Turkish reporters in the capital city of Baku.

                      Recalling his home city, which is also in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, Hasanov said the occupation was accomplished with the military support of Russia. “I saw Russian soldiers get out of tanks and celebrate their victory with champagne.”

                      Russia is considered the dominant power in the region, seeking to preserve its influence over its former republics and, in particular, the South Caucasus. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has attempted to manipulate the region through protracted conflicts, including Nagorno-Karabakh, a territorial conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia that still remains unsettled.

                      Azerbaijan lost 20 percent of its territories as a result of the bloody war over Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s, prompting Turkey to close its border with neighboring Armenia in a sign of solidarity with its ally Azerbaijan. Turkey's isolation of Armenia has subsequently pushed Armenia toward Russia.

                      Moscow and Yerevan signed a mutual security agreement and Russia is known to be backing Armenia militarily, as its only ally in the region.

                      While Azerbaijan is developing in economic terms and translating its economic might into military muscle, Russia continues to pursue its policy of domination over Armenia through its notorious economic leverage.

                      According to diplomatic sources, following the government change in Georgia, a neighboring country that also acts as a buffer zone between Armenia and Russia and as a transit country to deliver Caspian energy resources to Europe, Baku became concerned, as newly elected Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is reported to be closer to Russia rather than the Western powers President Mikhail Saakashvili is known to be close to.

                      Moreover, Baku is very concerned about Iran's position in the region, as Tehran is easing the blockade of Armenia by lending a helping hand to Yerevan. Azerbaijan keeps Armenia out of regional projects as part of its policy to keep Yerevan under economic blockade in a bid to push its adversary abandon its intransigent position over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

                      “If Tehran breaks its ties with Armenia, Yerevan will die of hunger,” Hasanov said to Today's Zaman.

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