Turkey's National Security Council on Thursday, November 25 urged Armenia to "cooperate" and take "the hand of peace" extended to it as an "opportunity".

The Council said in a statement after a meeting in the capital Ankara chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that "it is important for Armenia to consider the hand of peace extended to it as an opportunity, to cooperate, and to fully comply with the cease-fire" that ended the conflict last November, the council said.

In the war against Artsakh (Karabakh), Turkey supported Azerbaijan militarily, also by transferring terrorist mercenaries from the Middle East to fight against Karabakh. Armenia was the first to report on Turkey's deployment of thousands of Syrian fighters to Azerbaijan. International media publications followed suit, as did reactions from France, Russia and Iran.