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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan on National Revival Day, Azertag has reported. In a post on his official Twitter account on17 November, the Turkish FM said: “Our heroic Azerbaijani brothers who stood up for independence 32 years ago, liberated their occupied lands with the …

Gas supplies via the Southern Gas Corridor will begin in coming months, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the Public Relations and Event Management Department at Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR, told Trend. “After the completion of construction, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) was connected to the network of Italian Snam company. …

The Turkish parliament will consider the issue of sending the military to Azerbaijan, Trend reports referring to the Anadolu agency. The draft decree, signed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was submitted on Nov. 16 for parliamentary approval. The Turkish military will be involved in monitoring the ceasefire regime in the Nagorno-Karabakh …

Trend news agency expresses condolences on the death of Director General of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) Maxim Minchev. “We are deeply saddened by the news of the death of a prominent journalist in Bulgaria,” the statement said. Trend news agency expresses deep condolences to the family and friends of …

Azerbaijan obtains back its Kalbajar region today, November 15, 2020 under the trilateral agreement signed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on November 10. The agreement also envisages the de-occupation of Azerbaijan’s Aghdam and Lachin regions by December 1 as well …

Through the intermediary and participation of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the bodies of several servicemen who died on the battlefield around the Shusha city were collected, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told AZERTAC. “As part of this humanitarian action, the bodies of the …

Presidential aide Hikmat Hajiyev has urged all Azerbaijani diplomats to refrain from statements contradicting the Baku government’s official stance, Azertag reported on November 12. Hajiyev described as unacceptable Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu’s remarks on Nagorno-Karabakh’s status and the downing of a Russian helicopter. “What the Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia said …