Azeris Say Armenians Fleeing Syria Resettled in Separatist Area

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Azerbaijan accused neighboring Armenia of resettling some of the ethnic Armenians fleeing the Syrian civil war in its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.

“This is an act of provocation by Armenia,” Elman Abdullayev, a spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, said today by phone from the capital, Baku. “Armenia is seeking to change the demographic situation in the region.”