Azerbaijan reportedly has several large PR agencies working for it. They’re likely training Azeris to employ the same kind of victimhood propaganda has worked so well for the “Palestinians.”
“Azerbaijan strikes inside Armenia as Karabakh fighting widens,” by Dmitry Zaks and Aris Messinis, AFP, October 14, 2020:
Azerbaijan said Wednesday it destroyed missile launchers inside Armenia that were targeting its cities, an escalation that threatens to further draw regional powers Russia and Turkey into the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged an end to heavy fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian separatists that erupted two weeks ago, in their first telephone call since clashes broke out.
“They stressed the urgent need for joint efforts to end the bloodshed as soon as possible and move to a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem,” the Kremlin said.
Hundreds have been killed in the fighting over the disputed region, and continued clashes have rendered almost meaningless a ceasefire agreed in Moscow last week.
Armenia confirmed that military positions inside the country were hit but denied its forces had been firing into Azerbaijan. It warned that it too could start targeting military sites inside its adversary’s territory.
Its foreign ministry later accused Azerbaijan of refusing to implement the ceasefire and — with Turkish support — of trying to “expand” the area of the conflict by attacking Armenia.
Clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh have been largely confined to the region since a fresh outbreak of fighting started last month….