Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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How do you die while trying to get out of a tank. Was it on fire?

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How do you die while trying to get out of a tank. Was it on fire?

maybe he hit his head with something.. such things tend to happen in Azerbaijan.

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Soldier found dead after leaving military unit without permission in Azerbaijan

[ 18 February 2013 19:14 ]

Baku. Hafiz Heydarov – APA. The Azerbaijani Army has lost one more soldier.

APA reports that it happened in Sumgayit. Huseynov Nijat Habil, who served at the Defense Ministry’s military unit, left military unit without permission on February 11 this year. His body was found in a lake in Sumgayit on February 15.

According to preliminary versions, the solider committed suicide. His letter was found. In his letter, he wrote about the girl he loved.

Huseynov was drafted from Samukh region in October last year.

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NKR Defense Army
On the frontline

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Armenian Army

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NKR Defense Army

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Azerbaijan may apply special military regime in limited areas
[ 19 February 2013 15:09 ]
If necessary, amendments are expected to be made to the legislation to apply military regime in limited areas and improve information capacity in military situation

Baku. Mubariz Aslanov – APA. If necessary, amendments are expected to be made to the legislation to apply military regime in limited areas and improve information capacity in military situation. The Azerbaijani Parliament told APA that relevant annexes and amendments may be made to the law “On martial rule”.

Commenting on the issue, member of the parliament’s security and defense committee Zahid Oruj told APA that such amendments are possible and real: “At present, the situation over Nagorno Karabakh has become tense. Serz Sargsyan’s election as president of Armenia for next 5 years proves that the conflict will not be solved peacefully. Attempts to open Khojaly airport mean to openly decide on mass armed clashes in order to draw Azerbaijan into provocation. The consequences of the shooting down of an Armenian aircraft and battle for our airspace mean the start of the second Karabakh war. Under these circumstances the country must declare martial rule in the certain local zone. We should enhance Azerbaijan’s relations with the international information systems and making a number of amendments to the law on “Martial rule”, form our grounds on declaring martial rule around Karabakh,” he said.

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Israel supplying advanced weaponry to Turkey
Military deal, the fulfillment of an order that was halted after the Mavi Marmara incident, is first of its kind since 2010


Israel is providing advanced electronic warfare systems for aircraft to Turkey, a fulfillment of an earlier order that was put on hold in the wake of the infamous Mavi Marmara incident in 2010. It is the first instance of a military equipment exchange between Jerusalem and Ankara since then.

Turkey’s Today’s Zaman reported the sale, which will significantly beef up Ankara’s intelligence capabilities, and the aircraft upgrade was confirmed by senior Israeli sources Monday. A source said the deal was approved due to US pressure and Israel’s desire to restore its damaged relationship with Turkey, amid escalating tension between Ankara and Tehran over the Syrian conflict, according to the Hebrew daily Haaretz.

The Syrian civil war has posed additional security challenges for Turkey. In October 2012, five Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian fire, sparking fears that Ankara would be dragged into the regional conflict. Turkey vowed to respond harshly, and it deployed extra jets to its border with Syria in the weeks after the incident.
Turkish soldiers patrol a military station at the border crossing with Syria in Akçakale, across from the Syrian rebel-controlled town of Tel Abyad in October. (photo credit: AP)

Turkish soldiers patrol a military station at the border crossing with Syria in Akçakale, across from the Syrian rebel-controlled town of Tel Abyad in October. (photo credit: AP)

The electronic systems are to be integrated into the Turkish Air Force’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) military aircraft that were purchased from the US in the early 2000s. The system enables the planes to protect themselves from electronic attacks that target its controls during flight, Today’s Zaman reported.

In 2002, Boeing won a $200 million contract to supply Turkey with the four AWACS aircraft — and a $25 million contract to integrate electronic warning systems into the four planes was then won by ELTA, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries. Boeing supplied the planes to Turkey three years ago. Israel’s fulfillment of the order, however, was halted after it delivered two of the electronic systems in 2011, in the wake of the Mavi Marmara incident.

News about the weapons deal comes less than three months after media reports surfaced that Ankara and Jerusalem were engaging in secret back-channel reconciliation talks despite heightened tensions over Operation Pillar of Defense. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed that the two countries were trying to find ways to end their diplomatic impasse.

Relations between former close allies Turkey and Israel soured after nine pro-Palestinian activists — eight Turks and a Turkish-American — were killed by Israeli troops aboard the Mavi Marmara vessel, which was part of an international flotilla trying to break the Gaza blockade, on May 31, 2010. Israeli naval commandos commandeered the vessel and were attacked by activists.

Turkey has demanded a formal apology, compensation for victims and the families of the dead, and for the Gaza blockade to be lifted.

Israel has resisted Turkish demands to apologize for the raid on the ship and to compensate those killed as a precondition for normalizing relations. Israel — stressing that its solders were attacked with clubs and poles by violent thugs aboard the vessel, and insisting that its blockade against Gaza, which is run by the terror group Hamas, is legal — has said it “regrets” the loss of life, rather than issuing a full apology, and has offered to pay into what it called a “humanitarian fund” through which casualties and relatives could be compensated.

Turkey disputes Israeli assertions that its soldiers acted in self-defense. The commando operation sparked worldwide condemnation and led to an easing of Israel’s blockade on the the Gaza Strip. A UN report on the Mavi Marmara incident released in 2011 concluded that Israel had used unreasonable force in stopping the ship, but that the blockade on Gaza was legal.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-supplying-advanced-weaponry-to-turkey/

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Haqqin.az: Azerbaijani authorities use up Oil fund

The Government of Azerbaijan has turned into a lazy element and the hope and confidence in stability of the State Oil Fund revenues have transformed the government into club of oligarchs and consumers in the same time, the Azerbaijani information portal Haqqin.az says.

“Since last year, the Oil Fund actively purchases properties in overseas. In the near future more than a billion dollars will be spent on the purchase of real estate. Considering the fact that the global economic crisis continues unabated, new waves of crisis occur each year, and experts say that the real improvement will not arrive up to 2020, these steps of the Fund appear to be very risky. As we know, during the crisis the property prices go down in the first place,” the article says.

According to the author, on the other hand, taking into consideration the fact that "with what appetite the authorities of the country use up the Fund through different grand, magnificent and little profitable projects, then it would be better of them to buy property which they we hope will pass to coming generation, and the loss of the price will not be as huge and palpable, as the loss of the Fund means within the country.”

It is noted that in 2013, the cost of the Oil Fund will exceed revenues for the first time, the expected revenues will be $ 15 billion, while expenses - 17.2 billion, that is, 2.2 billion more, and this is a very troubling tendency.

"It seems that the authorities want to finish off Oil Fund reserves quickly and under various pretexts. This fact seams surprising for the election year. Do not they believe in their future?” the portal writes.

Another disadvantage, according to the author, is that the government, relying on the Oil Fund will not be able to a flexible policy.
“Figuratively speaking, the government has become a lazy element, and the hope and confidence in the stability of the translational motion of the Fund’s means has transformed the government into the club of oligarchs and consumers at the same time.

The author compares State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) with an optimal analogous structure that exists in the world which is Oil Fund of Norway, and stresses that's a long way off Norway. The assets of this Fund that reach $ 300 billion, may be increased to $ 500 billion in about three years and even exceed $ 800 billion in 10 years,” the writer says and notes that the Norwegian government has set a target to use the Oil Fund as little as possible, and leave the money for future generations and for providing a decent senility of its citizens,” the article says.

“In 2003 each inhabitant of Norway was getting 35,360 dollars and today, this figure is close to threshold of 100 thousand. And what we will leave to future generations? If it continues like this, there will be only nuts...” he concluded.

http://www.panorama.am/en/economy/2013/02/18/az-gov/