Turkey's Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop, who is in Azerbaijan on a three-day official visit to hold talks on the ongoing Upper Karabakh conflict, said on Monday that Armenia is committing war crimes and its leadership could be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

“Armenian forces bomb civilians, and that is a ‘war crime’ according to the Geneva Convention," he said. Armenia is a state that does not even respect the law of war. So, it would be absurd to expect that it would respect the cease-fire.”

Relations between the two former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Upper Karabakh, an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan.

Fresh clashes erupted on Sept. 27, and Armenia has since continued its attacks on civilians and Azerbaijani forces, even violating humanitarian cease-fire agreements.