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YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. Selahattin Demirtas,co-chairmanof thepro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, blames the President of the country Recep TayyipErdoğan and Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoglu for inciting war in Nagorno Karabakh. “Armenpress” reports “Agos” periodical informs about this.
“Nagorno Karabakh is a self-governing region. Armenia and Azerbaijan must settle the issue around negotiation table, as war will be of no benefit any of the sides.
Just from the beginning Erdoğan and Davutoglu started to make war inciting announcements: “Azerbaijan should trample and pass” fit in the logic of inspiring war”, Demirtaş mentioned.
Along the entire length of the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani opposing forces, on April 1 and throughout the morning of April 2, the adversary undertook large-scale offensive military actions, during which the adversary shelled with missile-artillery units not only Armenian defense positions, but also civilian settlements.
The Azerbaijani armed forces fired MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher on April 2, at 08: 30 in the direction of Martuni (NKR), killing 12 year old Vaghinak Grigoryan and wounding two other children. 4 other civilians were wounded later. On April 3 the subversive group of Azerbaijan brutally killed 3 elderly and vandalized their corpses in Talish village.
Due to the timely and professional actions of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army, it was possible to take the situation under control, and make the enemy suffer considerable losses.
The Defense Army undertook counteroffensive measures and dominated the strategic position in the direction of Talish, which was earlier occupied by Azerbaijani forces.
Adversary’s losses by April 4: 29 tanks, 3 battle vehicles, 1 military/engineering hardware, 2 helicopters, 6 UAVs, 1 MM-21 artillery system, more than 300 casualties. Number of wounded has yet to be clarified.
Nagorno Karabakh losses: 7 tanks, 20 casualties, 6 of whom officers and non-commissioned officers, 72 wounded, 8 of whom officers and non-commissioned officers. 4 casualties among civilians, 1 of them a child. 5 more people who were on their way to Martakert were killed as a result of bombing the bus on April 4.