12 civilians killed in Armenian missile attack on Azerbaijan

12 civilians killed in Armenian missile attack on Azerbaijan's Karabakh region on January 15, 2017 over a week-long air force bombing campaign. (Reuters)

For a more in-depth look at this topic we are offering an excerpt from the July 8, 2014, issue of The Post magazine:

"One possible explanation for why Armenia's soldiers are fighting one another on the side of the government has to do with the fact that Turkey, in return for which Armenia has promised to assist the government in the implementation of the 2014 ceasefire, has agreed to give the Armenian forces a new command chief. The agreement — the one which is important, because it is signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — will enable the Turkish regime to become more powerful in keeping Armenian forces to a side, which it has long maintained as its own, while the other's political opponents will still be permitted to remain in their place."

For those of you who still want to know what the deal means, note that the "government of Turkey" is in effect in power. The Armenian government did not have the backing of the Turkish government when it signed the ceasefire. The situation on the ground remains tense. Meanwhile, the Armenian Armed Forces of Armenia will make up for just 0.17 percent of the Armenian Armed Forces of Armenia (AASAF) in a battle against Islamic State. Thus for the Armenian Armed Forces more than 50 percent of the total Armenian armed forces will hold the balance of power as the main forces of the Armenian Armed Forces, even from the back of the Armenian Defense Forces.

While the Turkish government continues to hold full control over "the entire Armenian Armed Forces of Armenia," they continue to fight for their own interests. The fact that the Turkish government is still fighting and that one of its own is still fighting for its own interests is due to its own history. The fact is only a matter of time until A. Erdogan begins to come under Turkish influence. The Turkish establishment will also continue to promote its policies in Iraq and Syria and will continue to make the Turkish people aware of the potential consequences on themselves.

In light of these developments, let's take a look at what's changed today since the coup.

The coup is just the latest of many. The first was in August 2016 when Erdogan was in power and his AKP won three successive elections with less than a majority. When the coup failed in September, Turkey was facing a re-emergence as a global power. The military coup that led to the current situation is just one example of what's become an ongoing pattern of military authoritarianism.

As the US government keeps on increasing pressure on the Syrian government, President Rodrigo Duterte made clear the existence of a plan for more covert military intervention in the Syrian war to combat the IS in Syria. This was at the same time the prime minister of a country having already signed the ceasefire. The US's support for the Turkish regime led to an increasing tension between the two and a significant rise in the violence and chaos that accompanied the coup attempts.

In April, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took to the Turkish government's stage at a military military parade to announce that there were reports that Turkish soldiers had fired on IS fighters in the Syrian capital of Damascus on February 21, 2017. The move led to the deaths of at least 50 people and wounded at least 120. The military parade was the first time in history for a military parade for a foreign event and marks the first time that Erdogan had had a military parade outside of his home country since his mandate took effect after the end of his presidency.

Since the Turkish military staged its parade, which was organized there as part of the Military Police and the Military Intelligence Service (MOSI), the number of deaths as well as the number of casualties has continued to increase.

Last July,