Azerbaijan’s FM to fulfill with Turkey’s Fidan in Ankara as Putin courts Baku

Azerbaijan’s overseas minister, Jeyhun Bayramov, is about to reach in Ankara Tuesday following an invite from his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, amid burgeoning tensions between the Turkic allies.

Turkish and Azerbaijani media reported that the pair are anticipated to debate peace talks between Azerbaijan and its historic foe, Armenia, in addition to normalization talks between Ankara and Yerevan. They may moreover handle regional points, notably the battle in Gaza.

Turkey and Azerbaijan get pleasure from deep strategic ties, which noticed the previous assist the latter prevail in its 2020 battle towards Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh area that it had misplaced to Armenian forces in a earlier battle. However relations started to wobble when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in late July let it slip that Turkey had intervened within the newest Karabakh battle. He made the remark as he threatened to ship troops to Gaza to defend Palestinians towards Israel. Erdogan advised a gathering of his ruling Justice and Improvement (AKP) Celebration that “Turkey should be robust in order that Israel can’t do these ridiculous issues to Palestine.”

“Simply as we entered Karabakh, simply as we entered Libya, we’ll do one thing [similar] precisely to [Israel],” Erdogan stated. Turkey has denied formal involvement within the Nagorno-Karabakh battle that noticed Armenia lose all of the Azerbaijani territories that it had occupied within the early Nineties. Nonetheless, it’s an open secret that Turkish drones and navy advisers, along with huge inflows of weapons from Israel, performed an instrumental half in Azerbaijan’s victory, as did Russia’s resolution to do nothing to help Armenia. Turkey’s intervention in Libya in 2020 in assist of the internationally acknowledged authorities in Tripoli helped tip the steadiness towards jap warlord Khalifa Haftar.