ArmInfo. Turkey and Azerbaijan want to create a joint Turkic army, said the chairman of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Mustafa Sentop. This is reported by "Komsomolskaya Pravda".
According to the speaker of the Turkish parliament, the countries are already negotiating on this issue. Yesterday the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan announced the preparation of large-scale military exercises jointly with Turkey from July 29 to August 10. Some of the maneuvers are planned at the border with Armenia. Baku and Ankara will conduct tactical and tactical- flight exercises and live firing with the participation of the ground forces and the Air Force of both sides.
In June 2021, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Shushi in Nagorno-Karabakh and promised to open a Turkish consulate there. The Turkish leader noted that within the framework of the Shusha agreement, a Turkish military base could be created on the territory of Azerbaijan. On June 18, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Kremlin is closely monitoring information about the possible creation of a Turkish military base in Azerbaijan. According to him, Russia is cooperating with Turkey "in the matter of stabilizing the situation in the Transcaucasus."