This is popular front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. In this episode we're speaking to independent researcher Alexander Mciva

and today he's going to be talking about the Turkish-backed mercenaries from Syria that are fighting alongside

Azerbaijan against the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. Now that new war between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been going on for a month now

straight away we saw these mercenaries on the ground in Azerbaijan a lot of

people have been denying it in Turkey and Azerbaijan, but it is definitely confirmed.

Listen to this episode, Alex will explain why.

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So we're going to be speaking about this situation

with the Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries

where they've been found fighting for Azerbaijan against the Armenians in Karabakh.

It's a mad situation at first like I was like there's no way this is happening

you've been gathering a lot of evidence it looks like it definitely is happening but first like

can you can you just explain the situation like how did this

happen? Yes so in mid-September rumors started coming out that Turkey was sending

SNA mercenary Syrian National Army, its proxies, these mercenaries to Azerbaijan.

Initially this didn't really make any sense. There wasn't actually any active combat going on between Azerbaijan and Armenia and so it seems pretty far-fetched. And then all of a sudden on September 27th, Azerbaijan launches this huge offensive against Armenia

control in the Garneau-Karabakh.

And then in the next couple of days,

we start seeing more visual evidence, or we start seeing visual evidence of Syrian presence in Azerbaijan along the

front lines and then multiple local media outlets and local like

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