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Sending Turkish troops to Azerbaijan in the framework of the settlement of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is in the national interest of Turkey, says Recep Erdogan’s draft decree.
Turkish President Recep Erdogan appealed to the country’s parliament with a request to allow the dispatch of Turkish military personnel to Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported on November 16 by the Turkish state agency Anadolu.
Erdogan’s draft decree has been submitted to parliament, its text “draws attention to the terms of a joint declaration on Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as Baku’s official demand to form a joint Turkish-Russian center to monitor the regime. ceasefire “.
“The location of the joint center will be determined by Azerbaijan. The center will be occupied by the military and, if necessary, by civilian specialists … The dispatch of military personnel to Azerbaijan also responds to the national interests of Turkey,” the project cited. Anadolu decree.
The duration of the mandate is set at one year, “the scope of the mission, the number of staff and the duration will be determined by the administration of the Turkish president.”
On the night of November 10, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a declaration to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the agreements, 1960 Russian peacekeepers, 90 armored personnel carriers, 380 military and special vehicles will be deployed along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Prime Minister of Armenia said that this decision was extremely difficult for him, but that there was no alternative. Aliyev stressed that Pashinyan was “forced” to sign a document “extremely beneficial” for Baku. Following the signing of agreements to resolve the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, representatives of the Armenian opposition demanded Pashinyan’s resignation.
On the morning of November 10, the Russian Defense Ministry had sent 10 Il-76 military transport aircraft with peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh. On November 11, a plane commanded by the Russian peacekeeping forces landed at Erebuni airport.
Aliyev spoke about the deployment of Turkish peacekeepers in the region. According to him, the peacekeeping mission will be jointly led by Russia and Turkey.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the agreements reached on the solution of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh do not foresee the appearance of Turkish peacekeepers there. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed that there will be no Turkish peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh. At the same time, on November 10, Aliyev published a video recording of a conversation with Putin, in which the former talks about the joint peacekeeping mission of Russia and Turkey, and Putin does not comment in any way on this. statement.
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