The historic birthplace of a leading Turkish-Azeri intellectual recently returned to Azerbaijani hands following a truce with Armenia. The town of Shusha, the home of the educator, publicist, Pan-Turkist thinker and politician Ahmet Ağaoğlu, who played an important role in the foundation of both Aze...
Turkey are drawn against the Netherlands and Norway, while Azerbaijan have Portugal and Republic of Ireland, and England will face Poland and Hungary in their qualification groups for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The draw for the European qualifiers was made by FIFA in Zurich earlier today, 7 Dec...
When Armenia launched an armed assault against Azerbaijan on September 27 2020, it was already occupying 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory. Yerevan’s decision to fire on Azerbaijan’s civilian population in its military offensive prompted an armed response from Baku. Over the next 44 days, Azerb...
Turkey’s parliament has approved a motion that allows Turkish troops to be deployed in Azerbaijan for the next 12 months. The troops will join Russian forces as observers in Nagorno-Karabakh, helping to uphold the peace deal brokered by Russia and signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan on 10 November....
In war, the party with the most human potential and military equipment will succeed. Azerbaijan surpasses Armenia in all aspects. The population of Azerbaijan is five times larger than the population of Armenia, and its military budget exceeds the total budget of Armenia. The Azerbaijani army launc...
Celebrities have waded in to the Azerbaijan-Armenian conflict by publicly siding with one of the two warring factions. Mesut Özil, his ex-Arsenal teammate Henrikh Mkhitaryan and reality TV star Kim Kardashian West have all issued statements on the dispute, which centres on Azerbaijan’s fight to libe...
A London businessman received a nice surprise when he went to pay the bill at a hotel bar and found that a stranger had already paid it. On Friday afternoon Nural Ezel went to the Hyatt Regency – The Churchill Hotel in central London to meet a friend visiting from Istanbul. Catching up on each ot...
Ersin Tatar, the Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, has offered his support to Azerbaijan following fierce new border clashes with neighbouring Armenia that has left at least 16 people dead. The fighting flared up over the weekend, with both sides accusing the other of shelli...
Azerbaijan’s President İlham Aliyev and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formally inaugurated the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) in Eskişehir, Turkey, on June 12, 2018. Joining them at the opening ceremony were Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Ukrainian President Petro Por...
Leaders from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia launched a new Eurasian railroad link at a ceremony in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku last week. The 826-km (513 miles) Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK) railway, which includes 105-km of new track, links the three countries and establishes a new land connection be...
