Turkey calls for end of Azerbaijani territories' occupation
By Sara Rajabova Turkish Foreign Minister has said Turkey makes every effort to put an end to the occupation of territories of Azerbaijan. "To this end, Ankara also tries to improve relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as Turkey and Armenia," Ahmet Davutoglu said. Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far. The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day. Besides, the Armenian armed forces have intensified the ceasefire breaches on the contact line of troops between Armenia and Azerbaijan since the beginning of 2014. As a result of ceasefire breaches, several