Azerbaijani propaganda continues its desperate efforts to slander and disport the facts. The Vesti.az webzine has disgraced itself today by trying to pass a photo of a killed Georgian soldier for an Armenian one allegedly killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. After the dirty trick was laid bare, the webzine changed the picture: you can now see brave Armenian soldiers on the alert for any threat to peace in the conflict zone.

It is noteworthy, however, that, after getting off on the wrong foot, the unlucky Azeri propagandists did not abandon their disinformation efforts.

We would remind our readers of Azeri media’s recent reports on a skirmish on the contact line between the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops in the Aghdam sector. Yesterday, the Azeri media, referring to an unofficial source, reported that five Armenian soldiers had been killed, whereas only one Azeri soldier was wounded. The Ministry of Defense of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) officially refuted the information. . “It is a figment of imagination of Azeri propaganda. There was no skirmish. The Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces are in full control of the contact line, making the Azerbaijani side honor the 1994 cease-fire agreement,” stated Senor Asratyan, Press Secretary of the NKR Ministry of Defense.

Nonetheless, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who appears to implicitly trust Azeri journalists’ professional skills, called his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov to “express regret over the incident on the front line, which caused the death of five Armenian soldiers.” Minister Davutoglu expressed hope that “nothing like that [would] recur.” The Turkish media reported this information without specifying Mamedyarov’s reaction to his Turkish counterpart’s regret over the “death of five Armenian soldiers” or the reason why Davutoglu did not call his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandyan to express his regret over the “one wounded Azeri soldier.” Moreover, we have to state the fact that the regret was expressed to Baku, not Yerevan, as the incident, if it took place at all, was provoked by the Azeri side. In this case, we suppose the talk between the Davutoglu and Mamedyarov had nothing in common with the alleged incident.

A smart plot, isn’t it?