“One Nation, Two States,” Says Turkey’s Defense Ministry
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it was closely monitoring the Turkey-Azerbaijan joint military exercises currently underway on the borders of Armenia and Artsakh.
The exercises, which were announced Monday, are in their second day and come on the heels of Azerbaijan’s brazen attacks on civilian and military targets in Armenia’s Tavush Province, beginning on July 12.
The 13-day drills, involving jets and helicopters, will continue in Baku, Nakhchivan, Ganja, Kurdamir, and Yevlakh until Aug. 10. Ground exercises are scheduled to be held in Baku and Nakhchivan from August 1 to 5 with artillery, armored vehicles, and mortars striking simulated targets.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry Thursday, in a Tweet, shared a video of the military drills, accompanied by the slogan, “One nation, two states,” and emojis of Turkish and Azerbaijani flags.
Aleksey Zaytsev, a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, said that Russia is closely monitoring the drills.
“We are closely following follow the regional situation, particularly considering the recent confrontation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. We strongly urge the sides to demonstrate restraint, including in their ongoing military activities,” Zaytsev said, reported the TASS news agency.
He also said that the Russian authorities have taken all necessary measures for preventing further escalation on Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
“Russia was greatly concerned about the border escalation between two of our allies—Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Zaytsev said during a daily briefing.
“We are confident that the long-lasting Karabakh conflict, as well as any other conflict will be solved exclusively peacefully through diplomatic talks. Our position is shared also by the other OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries, the U.S. and France, as well as the United Nations, the CIS and other international organizations,’’ added Zaytsev.
He added that Russian authorities have taken all the necessary measures for preventing future escalation, recalling that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has had conversations with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts. ‘
“We are ready to continue efforts for establishing political dialogue between Yerevan and Baku,” he said.
After Azerbaijan announced the joint military drills with Turkey, President Vladimir Putin of Russian phoned his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and stressed the importance of avoiding any actions that would escalate tensions.
Anyone else sick and tired of hearing “both sides” being admonished?
Russia while flirting with Turkey, Erdogan will end up destroying Russia, Turkey is the horse of Troy of the west.
More like 2 nations same Esher
Nekhechivan is Armenian lands given away.. Disregard the treaty of Kars as Illegitimate and start professing this reality. .
This carefully crafted and artificially invented “two states, one nation” is nothing but euphemism for the destruction of Armenia. For two states to be one nation, they must practically share the same customs, values and language in addition to sharing a border. None of those exist between these two criminal states. Fascist and genocidal Turkey invented in 1923 on the lands and corpses of millions of indigenous Christians, Armenians-Greeks-Assyrians, they murdered AND terrorist artificial Azerbaijan invented on occupied Armenian lands in 1918 by Soviets in collaboration with Turkish terrorists as a Turkish outpost, a little Turkey, in the South Caucasus for the pursuit of racist pan-Turkic agenda and as a vase for Soviet expansion into Persia and the Middle East.
The only thing these two criminal and artificial states have in common is an Armenian enemy. Turks are majority Sunni Muslim and pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijanis are majority Shia Muslims making them religious enemies since the 7th century. Most of Azerbaijani traditions and customs are based on Persian, and even Kurdish, customs and traditions such as their Eid Novruz (New Year) officially celebrated in Iran, artificial Azerbaijan, Kurdish territories, Afghanistan and in some Central Asian Turkic countries such as Tajikistan but NOT in Turkey! The Turkish language spoken by one is not fully but barely understood by the other.
Conclusion: “two states, one nation” means removing Armenia as an obstacle to the unification of these two terrorist states as part of the Turkish dream of inventing the mythical “Land of Turan” from Turkey to China! The rest is fabricated Turkish nonsense!