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Turkey Vows Support for Azerbaijan in Escalating Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Dorian Jones

   ISTANBUL - Turkey says it will back Azerbaijan with all means necessary
   as fighting entered a second day Monday between Azeri and Armenian
   forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, in a sign the
   conflict could be widening.

   Monday saw Azeri and Armenian forces exchange heavy artillery fire,
   with each accusing the other of starting the hostilities Sunday.
   Observers called the latest fighting over Nargono Karabakh, an enclave
   inside Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians, the worst since the
   1990s.

   Witness reports put the number of dead, including civilians, at more
   than 20 and at least 100 wounded.'¯

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