Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Baku on Saturday to participate in Azerbaijan’s Victory Day celebrations, commemorating the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region from Armenian occupation.
It was reported that Azerbaijani First Deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Samir Sharifov, and Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler welcomed Erdogan at Baku’s Heydar Aliyev International Airport.
Erdogan is accompanied by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Chief Ibrahim Kalin, and several other officials.
Erdogan is expected to meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif in Baku to discuss bilateral relations and exchange views on regional and international developments.
On December 2, 2020, President Aliyev declared November 8 “Victory Day in the Azerbaijani Patriotic War,” the date his country’s forces entered the city of Shusha in the Nagorno-Karabakh region after its liberation.
The Azerbaijani army launched an operation on September 27, 2020, to liberate its occupied territories in Nagorno-Karabakh. After 44 days of fierce fighting, Azerbaijan and Armenia reached a ceasefire agreement stipulating that Baku would regain control of the occupied provinces.
