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Azerbaijan has tonight resumed intensive firing in the direction of the villages bordering Armenia’s Tavush province. According to the information of Armenian News – NEWS.am, several people have been wounded as a result of the firing at Kot village.

Noyemberyan Medical Centre representative told Armenian News – NEWS.am they had got an alert from the village and sent a car to take the wounded to hospital. The number of the wounded and their condition is yet unknown.

Armenia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan confirmed the information received by Armenian News – NEWS.am, noting that the Azerbijani side is firing at the length of the common front in Tavush area.

“Firing is going on at the moment; they are firing mainly from arms of various calibers; the situation is under control,” Hovhannisyan said.

Armenia’s Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan today announced there is tension on the border and that the adversary has been recently firing from ranged weapons. He also assured that the Armenian forces are in control of the situation on the border.

Earlier, the Azerbijani side had fired at Armenia’s Chinari and Aygepar villages, as a result of which two Armenian soldiers were wounded.

On the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, eight writers from Turkey post this letter to their fellow Armenians.

“It has been a hundred years since hundreds of thousands of Armenians of this land have fallen under the systematic massacre of the Ottoman State. In 1915, women and men, young and old, they lost their lives, their families, and their homes… We, at P24 (Independent Journalism Platform) humbly pay our respect to the fallen and present this letter from eight writer,” the letter says, according to Massis Post.

The short video produced by P24 and directed by Enis Riza carries the messages of Adalet Agaoglu, Ahmet Altan, Oya Baydar, Murat Belge, Hasan Cemal, Cengiz Çandar, Perihan Magden, and Bejan Matur.