File picture: Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (left) chats with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Reuters
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his counterpart Ilham Aliyev within the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan on Monday, Turkish media reported Sunday.
The 2 allies mentioned in June they wished to step up efforts to open a land hall linking Turkey to Azerbaijan’s predominant territory by way of Nakhchivan and Armenia, a longstanding and sophisticated undertaking.
The assembly follows a lightning Azerbaijani offensive which recaptured the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, primarily populated by ethnic Armenians.
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