France and Turkey at Odds as Karabakh Fighting Divides NATO Allies

France and Turkey at Odds as Karabakh Fighting Divides NATO Allies
Local residents take shelter in a dugout during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the city of Terter, Azerbaijan, on Sept. 30, 2020. Aziz Karimov/Reuters
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YERVAN/BAKU—NATO allies France and Turkey traded angry recriminations on Wednesday as international tensions mounted over the fiercest clashes between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces since the mid-1990s.

On the fourth day of fighting, Azerbaijan and the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh accused each other of shelling along the line of contact that divides them.