
According to Aslanoglu, the journalists were assaulted by Armenian military while they attempted to video record the construction of a church by Armenians in the occupied Shahbulag village of the Agdam region of Azerbaijan. The journalists were able to escape the fire as a result of counter gunfire from the Azerbaijani military.
As a result of a war that erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1992-1994, Nagorniy Karabakh Autonomous Republic which belongs to Azerbaijan and seven more Azerbaijani regions are occupied by Armenia. Although a cease-fire was achieved on 12 May 1994, no peace contract has been signed so far.