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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
Politics
Liz Cookman, James Palmer, Anna Ohanyan

Syrians Make Up Turkey’s Proxy Army in Nagorno-Karabakh

A fire burns in a hardware store after a rocket attack in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, on Oct. 3. Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images

Early Sunday morning, the bodies of more than 50 Syrians killed in a conflict raging far from their own borders—in a land many had barely heard of a few months ago—were returned home for funeral preparations.

They were members of militias that had fought previously in northern Syria, then Libya, and now in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh—but always on behalf of Turkey.

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