The Turkish Media Agency has published the article entitled "Azerbaijan continues its efforts to fight against terrorism" by political scientist and chairman of the Trade Union of Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mehman Ismayilov. 

The article informs that Azerbaijan continues to contribute to global efforts of fighting against terrorism. Azerbaijan has become one of the most active members of the international coalition against terrorism following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 

During the past period, Azerbaijan's joint activity with anti-terrorist coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq is a clear example of the fight against international terrorism. Today, our country considers international cooperation as one of the most important components in the fight against terrorism. 

In addition to the bilateral, tripartite, and multilateral agreements signed with other countries, the author reminds us that Azerbaijan actively participates in regional and international cooperation mechanisms in the fight against terrorism.

Azerbaijan regularly makes changes to its internal policy in the fight against terrorism. Azerbaijan has joined 12 international conventions against terrorism. The country's legislation is adapted to those international conventions.  

In the article, it was also stated that one of the main problems in the fight against terrorism was the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia. Since the occupied territories remain outside national and international control, favorable conditions emerge for criminal groups to carry out their illegal activities. There is a risk that the proceeds from criminal activities carried out in those areas will be used to finance terrorist activities in various parts of the world.

Azerbaijan is a country that has been subjected to terrorism since the 1980s. In this regard, the problem of terrorism is not a new concept for our republic. There is sufficient evidence of the terrorist activities committed in our territory with the direct initiative, organization, and participation of Armenia. Since the late 1980s, Armenia has made claims to the territories of Azerbaijan and used force against the territorial integrity of our country and has repeatedly committed terrorist acts. Unfortunately, the initiators and participants of these terrorist acts are still at large and have not yet been brought to justice. 

The ethnic genocide of Armenian terrorists in the second half of the 1980s was registered in the territory of Azerbaijan mainly with the terrorist acts observed by the explosions of passenger buses and metro. 

The most terrible of the terrorist acts committed by Armenia against the Azerbaijani people occurred on February 26, 1992, in Khojaly, where 613 Azerbaijanis, including 106 women and 63 children, were brutally murdered in one night. Memorial Human Rights Center and "Human Rights Watch" organization declared the Khojaly genocide as one of the cruelest tragedies committed against the civilian population.

Among the latest victims of Armenian terrorist acts committed near the contact line and the state border are a 5-year-old boy from Aghdam, a 13-year-old girl from Tovuz, and a 2-year-old girl from Fuzuli, and most recently, a 14-year-old boy from Aghjabadi killed as a result of the Armenian shelling on civilian objects outside the frontline from the territory of Armenia on October 4, 2020.

Inspired by the dream of creating a ‘great Armenia’, Armenian terrorism has been adapted to meet Armenia’s changing political purposes. Armenian terrorism, which was established in the late 19th century and expanded in the middle of the 20th century has become the main danger in four various continents, including Australia with more than 200 terror acts. Taking into account that terrorism and violence are constantly used at every stage of exacerbation of the spirit of Armenian nationalism, necessary measures should be taken in time to eliminate this ethnic terrorist situation at both the regional and international levels for the sake of peace, security, and stability. 

The Azerbaijani Army started to carry out military operations to liberate the occupied territories on September 27. These operations are clear examples of the fight against international terrorism. Armenia, which turned terrorism into its state policy, uses terrorist groups from Syria, Lebanon, and other countries and these facts have been confirmed. 

Military-political leadership of Armenia continues its terror activities against civilians by violating norms and principles of international law. As a result of the enemy shelling on areas populated by the peaceful population of Azerbaijan with heavy artillery fire, more than 78 people from the total civilian population have been hospitalized with various degrees of injuries, and 23 people have died.

Apart from that, the Armenian military units targeted Beylagan, Aghjabedi, Barda, Goranboy, Tartar, Dashkasan, Shamkir, Tovuz, Ganja, Naftalan, Mingachevir, and especially Absheron and Khizi, which were located outside the combat zone. They continue to intensively shell district and village centers, civil infrastructure facilities - residential houses, hospitals, medical centers, school buildings, kindergartens, administrative buildings of state institutions, and agricultural areas with heavy artillery.

Thus, this anti-human activity of Armenia, which neglects international humanitarian norms and conventions on war and continues its terrorist activities, should be condemned by the civil states. In the fight against international terrorism, the approach of countries with double standards should be stopped, the aggressor should be called by its name and become an object of condemnation.