From: HQ.GGG@FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: News/Haber
Date: 7 Apr 92 12:12:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: Sunburn.9204071214.AA22797
Reply-To: Turkish Cultural Program List <TRKNWS-L%USCVM.BITNET@forsythe.Stanford.EDU>


     Mon Apr 06, 1992  4:46 am  EST
     FARID
       FHM100F@oduvm.cc.odu.edu

The following news is reported by the Turan News Agency of Azerbaijan.

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        ARMENIAN YOUTH GO THROUGH MILITARY TRAINING IN GEORGIA

Baku,4/03/92,TURAN: According to Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense, 1200 youths
from Armenia are taking crash courses in military training in different arms
of service. The training is taking place in the Transcaucasian Military
Training Centers in Tiblisi, Karayazi, Gori and Dmansi. This is the second
party from Armenia going through such training. The first group of 700 Armenian
-s received a three month training on January, 1992. Their training is taking
place in a train resembling that of Karabagh. Azerbaijan plans to discuss the
issue with the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Kozirev, during his
visit in Baku.

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        ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS CURBING OF THE KARABAGH CONFLICT

Baku,4/03/92,TURAN: A number of rallies, demanding to curb the Karabagh war has
been held in Yeravan and other Armenian cities this week.The rally participants
demanded the resignation of the Armenian president Ter-Petrosyan. They demanded
an end to the escalation of the conflict and withdrawal of Armenian citizens
from the conflict zone. During a rally in Kirovakan on March 31, several rally
participants were killed and injured by Ter-Petrosyan supporters using machine
gun. The leader of the Armenian National Self-determination movement, Paipur
Airikyan, has classified the progress of the Armenian National Army in the
Karabagh region as "Temporal" whose success may end with national disaster.

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                ARMENIAN SHELLING OF AZERI VILLAGES

Baku,4/03/92,TURAN: Since last evening, Azeri settlements in Karabagh and
border-line regions have come under shelling. Armenian National Army is
conducting helicopter launched missile attacks against Azerbaijan self-defense
forces in Kelbajar region. The Mi-24 helicopters used in the attacks were
seized from the Leninakan Squadron. The Azeri villages of Shafag and Manashid
in Geranboy region were subjected to mortar and gun shelling by Armenian troops
transferred there from Armenia. Villages in Agdam and Fizuli region in Karabagh
lowland were subjected to Armenian shelling. There were dead and injured among
the civilians and the self-defense personnel. Ravages of the war was evident in
all of the villages.

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        AZERBAIJAN POPULAR FRONT DETERMINED TO WIN THE ELECTIONS

Baku,4/04/92,TURAN: A rally of 100,000 people, answering the APF call, was held
in the Azadlig Meidani (Freedom Square) of Baku. A member of the National
Council who is also an APF leader, Isa Gambarov, told the crowd that: "The era
of compromises with the ex-communists has come to an end. And APF is going to
do its best in taking power in the republic". The crowd carried banners asking
people to vote for Abulfas Elchibey for the post of the state president.
Tofik Gasimov, another member of the National Council, told our correspondent
that: "Democrats are going to do their best to hamper the partocrats' attempts
to return Heidar Aliev to power in Azerbaijan". Today a meeting of the APF
ruling board, reached a preliminary agreement on nominating the 54 year old
Abulfas Elchibey for the post of the president of the republic. An official
announcement will be made next week.

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                        RUSSIAN MINISTER VISITING BAKU

Baku,4/04/92,TURAN: Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Kosirev,
arrived in Baku today. He will meet with Azerbaijani Parliament chairman,
Yagub Mamedov, Prime Minister Hasan Hasanov, Minister of Defence Gasiev and
the Russian community in Azerbaijan in separate meetings. A protocol on
establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Azerbaijan will be
signed. Experts regard Kosirev's visit as an attempt to intercept the peace
initiatives of the CSCE whose role in solving the Karabagh conflict reduces the
image of Russia in the region as a peace maker. Russian's are not considered as
neutral peace makers in the Azeri-Armenian conflict because of Russian-Armenian
Aid Pact signed recently.

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                        NIGHT SHELLING GOES ON

Baku,4/04/92,TURAN: Last night, Armenian Armed units subjected the Azeri towns
of Fizuli, Naftalan and a number of settlements in the Karabagh lowlands to
"Grad" and other types of rocket attacks. There are killed and injured in the
settlements. Many houses were destroyed. Three villages in the Azeri region of
Tauz, came under heavy machine gun attack from the Armenian Shamshaddi region.
Azeri units suppressed the enemy emplacements in a counter-attack. Two infantry
combat vehicles were put out of action near the Govshad village in Fizuli
region by the Azerbaijani self-defense forces, yesterday. Azerbaijan Ministry
of Defense has reported a concentration of more than 70 military vehicles and
a large number of troops near the Azerbaijani-Armenian border in Kafan.
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                ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI MEETING ON THE BORDER

Baku,4/04/92,TURAN: New Talks between the representatives of Azerbaijani and
Armenian border regions in Kazakh started at 3:00 pm today.A number of security
measures are to be discussed.

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