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On November 16, Turkish President Recep Erdogan appealed to the country’s parliament with a request to allow the dispatch of Turkish military personnel to Nagorno-Karabakh. The following day, the country’s legislature approved this initiative.
The Turkish parliament today approved President Recep Erdogan’s proposal to send Turkish troops to Azerbaijan. Anadolu agency reports.
On the eve of the Turkish president making this request to parliament. IN In the draft text, he noted: “Attention was drawn to the terms of the joint statement on Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as Baku’s official demand to form a joint center of Turkey and the Russian Federation to monitor the regime of high the fire”.
The center will be made up of military personnel and, if necessary, civilian specialists. The center’s work will aim to ensure peace and stability in the region “in light of measures to guarantee the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.”
Erdogan stressed that sending military personnel to Azerbaijan is in Turkey’s national interests.
The scope of the mission, the number of personnel and the duration will be determined by the presidential administration, the duration of the mission is determined by one year.
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. After the signing of the agreements on the solution of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, representatives of the Armenian opposition demanded the resignation of Pashinyan.
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 peacekeepers landed at the 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 settlement 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 released 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.
On November 17, Putin confirmed that the ceasefire in Karabakh would be controlled by Russian and Turkish officials.
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