Armenian accusations that a Turkish F-16 fighter aircraft attacked and destroyed one of Armenian Su-25 fighter jets are fake, Turkeys spokesman insisted on Tuesday evening.

On Tuesday, Armenia announced that a US-made Turkish F-16 shot down one of its planes. The Soviet-built Su-25 was targeted while in Armenian airspace, and its pilot was killed in the attack, according to officials in Yerevan.

The statement came just hours after Turkey promised to help Azerbaijan to prevent what it called “Armenian aggression” amid a new flare-up between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

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“The claim that Turkish F-16s shot down an Armenian plane is not true,” Fahrettin Altun told the press. Altun also urged Armenia to call a halt to the “cheap propaganda games” and withdraw its troops from “occupied territories” in the disrupted Nagorno-Karabakh region.

His assurances were backed up by Azeri Defense Ministry spokesman, Vagif Dergahli, who blasted reports of Turkish jets fighting for Azerbaijan as “lies and another fantasy of the Armenian military-propagandist machine.”

Nagorno-Karabakh has been a bone of contention among Azerbaijan and Armenia for decades, with both neighbors fighting a bloody war over it in the 1990s. The region is internationally recognized as Azerbaijani territory, but the local majority-Armenian population refuses to submit to Azeri rule. Baku considers Nagorno-Karabakh to be illegally occupied by Armenia.

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