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  With Friends Like These posted at 12:33:57 UTC   via   cepa.org Turkey’s brinksmanship in the South Caucasus puts a spotlight on tensions within NATO. On Friday, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan flew to Moscow for ceasefire talks. A “humanitarian ceasefire” was announced earlier this week, but at the time of writing appears to have broken down. “Let those holding talks in Moscow know that it’s our territory and we won’t be making any concessions,” Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev remarked of the prospects for peace on Friday, foreshadowing this week’s renewed violence. Currently at an advantage, Azerbaijan has little incentive to return to the negotiating table. In the past, when tensions around Nagorno-Karabakh flared up, neither side gained sufficient advantage to force the other side into concessions. By default or design, Moscow has ended up as an arbiter. This time, however, Turkey seems to be tipping the scales in Azerbaijan’s favor, with the other two region

  Selected Articles - The News And Times - 1:18 PM 9/16/2023 #SouthCaucasus The problems of the South Caucasus are larger and deeper than the most visible of them Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the Armenia - Azerbaijan hostilities. There are more than 50 distinct ethnic groups in this region, and they should be seen and heard from also. The ethnic groups of the Caucasus are the unique precious stones in God's necklace, big and small, rolled up and down the high mountains, escaping the tragedies of history and in search of security. Gather them together into the modern South Caucasus Federation.  #SouthCaucasus The problems of the South Caucasus are larger and deeper than the most visible of them Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the Armenia - Azerbaijan hostilities. There are more than 50 distinct ethnic groups in this region, and they should be seen and heard from also. The ethnic groups of the Caucasus are the unique precious stones in God's... posted 1h ago by  Michael Novakhov (