Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Azerbaijan says forces seized 2nd-largest city, Armenia denies it

Azeris celebrated on the streets of Baku after President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that his country's forces had taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, but Armenian officials denied the city had been captured.

Shusha, which Armenians call Shushi, is of cultural and strategic importance to both sides and is located 15 km south of the enclave's largest city Stepanakert.

Turkish President Tayyip Erodgan later congratulated Azerbaijan on Sunday for allegedly capturing the key city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

Emboldened by Turkish support, Azerbaijan has the upper hand in the bloodiest fighting in more than 25 years in the South Caucasus.

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