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Paris, Oct 8 (EFE / EPA). - (Camera: Christophe Petit Tesson) The Franco-Armenian community in Paris protested on Thursday in front of the Turkish embassy in solidarity with Armenia due to the clashes in Nagorno Karabakh.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses support for Azerbaijan's military operation in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. "We support the steps taken by Azerbaijan, with whom we act together with the motto of 'one nation, two states', to defend its territorial integrity," Erdogan says. SOUNDBITE
Armenians from France gather at Place du Trocadero in Paris, to demonstrate against the situation in the separatist province of Nagorno-Karabakh, the scene of a bloody conflict for weeks with Azerbaijan. They seek the recognition of Artsakh. IMAGES
Images of Armenians gathering to take part in an anti-government protest in central Yerevan. Azerbaijan's lightning military takeover of the Nagorno-Karabakh, ethnic Armenian enclave, last week, sparked a sudden exodus of 100,417 people, according to Yerevan, from an estimated population of 120,000 since the breakaway region saw its decades-long fight against Azerbaijani rule end in sudden defeat. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan to meet his counterpart, Ilham Aliyev. The meeting, taking place in the territory locked between Armenia and Iran on the border with Turkey, comes just days after Azerbaijan seized the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and was officially intended to launch the construction of a gas pipeline. The two presidents are, however, also due to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh and the opening to Azerbaijanis of Armenia's Zangezur corridor, Turkish media reported. IMAGES