With Turkish and Azerbaijan shelling of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Armenia intensifying, over 100 US Senate and House of Representatives members have demanded an end to the aggression, with growing calls to sanction Turkey’s Erdogan and Azerbaijan’s Aliyev regimes for war crimes committed during this onslaught, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

“The [US] Administration needs to listen to its own intelligence agencies, who know very well that Azerbaijan initiated this attack, and urgently heed the call of Congress, which is demanding—on a bipartisan basis—that sanctions be enforced against both the Erdogan and Aliyev regimes,” stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.  “The House must pass H.Res.1165 at the next opportunity—sending a powerful message not only to Ankara and Baku, but also to the White House and Treasury Department that U.S. inaction has already cost far too many innocent lives.”