Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has raised his country’s flag over the capital of Karabakh in a rite reaffirming Baku’s control of the disputed region.
The Azerbaijani chief delivered a speech and raised the flag over the town, which is referred to as Khankendi via Azerbaijan and Stepanakert via Armenians, the presidential workplace mentioned Sunday.
The Karabakh region, which was once up to now known as Nagorno-Karabakh and is understood to Armenians as Artsakh, is across the world known as Azerbaijani territory, however become a breakaway state beneath the control of ethnic Armenian forces in 1994 following a six-year warfare.
A next struggle in 2020 returned control of a lot of the space to Azerbaijan, till a lightning offensive closing month pressured separatists to relinquish the relaxation of the region.
In a 24-hour marketing campaign that started on Sept. 19, the Azerbaijani military routed the space’s undermanned and outgunned Armenian forces, forcing them to capitulate.
The majority of the space’s ethnic Armenian inhabitants later fled the region, fearing reprisals or shedding the freedom to observe their faith and customs.