Ilham Aliyev wins expected landslide victory, but OSCE monitors say vote was ‘restrictive’ and ‘not competitive’. Election observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe have raised “serious questions” about the validity of Azerbaijan’s presidential election, which saw incumbent Ilham Aliyev secure a fifth term with more than 90 percent of the vote. “While six other candidates participated …
Baku and Yerevan announce temporary ‘humanitarian ceasefire’, hours after a missile attack that killed civilians in Azerbaijan’s Ganja. — Anna A. Naghdalyan October 17, 2020 17:47 GMT – Turkic Council condemns Armenia’s attack on Azerbaijan The Turkic Council said on Twitter: “Bombing civilians is against international humanitarian law. Omer Kocaman, deputy secretary general of Turkic Council, said these attacks constitute …
The shifting framework of the conflict – from a Euro-Atlantic endeavour to a regional one – is indicative that neither Russia nor Turkey consider the West a relevant player in their back yard any longer. Thus, the increased isolationism of US foreign policy and a lack of interest by European countries in the region, coupled with the global COVID-19 pandemic’s …
