President Erdoğan to attend victory parade in Baku over Nagorno-Karabakh victory

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will pay a visit to Baku on Dec. 10 to attend a victory parade over the Azerbaijani army's liberation of territories that were under three decades of Armenian occupation and to hold talks with Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev.

Azerbaijan will hold celebrations for the army's victory against Armenia, a month after the latter had to accept the withdrawal of its troops from the occupied territories in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Brokered by Russia on Nov. 10 following six-week-long armed conflict, the agreement has officially ended the Armenian occupation and brought about a ceasefire to be monitored from a joint center to be established by Russia and Turkey.

Turkey has pledged a great support to Azerbaijan throughout the clashes in line with a bilateral agreement on security cooperation. Both Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Defense Minister Hulusi Akar have frequently visited Baku during the armed conflict in a bid to coordinate the cooperation between the two countries. It will be Erdoğan's first visit to Baku after the Nagorno-Karabakh victory.

The talks between Erdoğan and Aliyev are expected to focus on the post-conflict process in the Nagorno-Karabakh and how best the two countries will cooperate in further stabilizing the region.

Relations between the former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Upper Karabakh, a territory recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.

The agreement and truce are seen as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia, whose armed forces have been withdrawing in line with the agreement.

Meanwhile, the Turkish press reported that Azerbaijan...