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Turkey holds joint military drills with Azerbaijan amid Armenia conflict

  • August 01, 2020

Jul 31, 2020

Turkey and Azerbaijan are conducting joint military drills amid ongoing clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Turkey sent US-made F-16 fighter jets to Azerbaijan for joint exercises, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry announced today. The joint military drills began Wednesday and involve planes and helicopters throughout Azerbaijan, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Border clashes erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan this month in the Tavush-Tovuz area; Azerbaijan’s Tovuz region is home to a strategic energy pipeline. 

The flare-up is part of a wider territorial dispute between the two Caucasus nations known as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The area is disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan and there have been several skirmishes there since the end of the Soviet Union.

Turkey and Azerbaijan have a historically close relationship and Azerbaijani is a Turkic language. On Thursday, Turkey’s Defense Ministry tweeted “one nation, two states” and shared a video of a joint military drill.

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