YEREVAN. – Information is being disseminated in the press that, "Turkey’s special army units are being deployed in the Sev Lake region of Syunik [Province of Armenia] for two days now." The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia (MOD RA) noted this in a statement

"The Republic of Armenia, in particular, the RA Ministry of Defense, has repeatedly—including at most various international platforms—reflected on the issue that the Turkish armed forces are heavily involved in the training, instruction, and even management processes of the Azerbaijani army.

The clearest evidence of this was the war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh) last fall], in which the Turkish armed forces were directly involved.

The presence of the Turkish military in the units of the Azerbaijani armed forces has long been a fact, confirmed—also by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.

From this point of view, the accusations that the RA MOD is concealing some facts related to the presence of Turkish military in the Azerbaijani armed forces are simply baseless.

"As for the photo of a soldier with a Turkish logo—which is being disseminated in the media—it was taken in the non-Armenian sector of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the movement of the soldier has been monitored by the units of the RA armed forces, and there is no question of "deployment of a Turkish army unit" in the given area," the Armenian MOD added.