International press compares the actions of Azerbaijan forces in Artsakh to the atrocities done by ISIS

YEREVAN, APRIL 8, ARMENPRESS. The involvement of the members of ISIS in Azerbaijani army and their participation in Artsakh-Azerbaijani borders in April has become a matter of discussion and great concern in different international media sources. In Italian Spondasud.it website the analyst finds similarities between actions of Azerbaijani armed forces in Artsakh and actions done by ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

“Armenpress” reports the Italian website stresses that beheading people or cutting their ears is typical of terrorists and the members of ISIS tend to boast about it In Ezdipress website, the cruel death of the soldier of Yezidi decent and the publication of the photos have awakened great contempt among yezidi users. In the comment section of the website there are hundreds of comments, where the readers draw parallels between Azerbaijan and ISIS, stressing that Azerbaijan is not that different from ISIS. Majority of users consider the actions of Azerbaijan military forces as war crimes.

In the same website Azerbaijani users also took in part in the discussion, these users not only accept atrocities done by Azerbaijani soldiers, but also stress that everything is allowed during war. The fact that the members of ISIS are fighting in Karabakh, is also confirmed by the ISNA website. “100 Azerbaijani solders who are members of ISIS, have returned to their home country from Syria in order to participate in the war against NK,” – the swebite writes. ISNA writes that the members of ISIS, who are of Azerbaijani decent and whose number is near 100, have left Syria with the intention of participating in Karabakh War, are returning to their country through Turkey. In this context, the news provided by the Azerbaijan media are crucially important, that Turkish special subdivision have arrived in Azerbaijan in a helicopter to move the bodies of the fellow soldiers to Turkey. Doing the analysis the media sources mentioned above point out that the number of Azerbaijani militants participating in ISIS was 3000.