Armenian Turks become ‘target` as Azerbaijan conflict escalates
(WorldNews Europe)

Fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh in the southern Caucasus has renewed pressure on Turkey`s ethnic Armenian minority as Ankara increases support for its long-standing ally, Azerbaijan. There are about 60,000 Armenian Turks, mostly in Istanbul, a huge drop from up to 2.4 million who lived across eastern Anatolia before the First World War. At that time they faced massacres and expulsions by Ottoman forces. The resumption of the conflict between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has seen the re-emergence of anti-Armenian sentiment in Turkey, online and in traditional media. Garo Paylan, an opposition MP of Armenian ancestry, said the Turkish government`s bellicose support...