Turkish and Azerbaijani fighter jets took off as a part of a joint navy train in Azerbaijan on Monday, the latter’s Protection Ministry reported Tuesday morning.
As per a navy cooperation deal between the 2 international locations, Ankara and Baku are holding an intensive drill designed to make sure the coordination of items throughout battle, enhance their administration, share expertise and improve professionalism. The drill encompasses the Azerbaijani cities of Baku, Astara, Jabrayil and Imishli.
The troops, together with land and air forces, particular items, intelligence items, and missile and artillery items, are utilizing Turkish F-16s and special-purpose fortification gear for the train.
The train continued over Monday evening into early Tuesday, the Azerbaijani Protection Ministry mentioned, because the items destroyed the automobiles and personnel of the figurative enemy.
This week’s drill follows the flight-tactical coaching the international locations performed earlier this yr in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani chief Ilham Aliyev famous the significance of the joint drill following a gathering with Türkiye’s Protection Minister Hulusi Akar in Baku, the place the 2 known as on Armenia to “reply to Türkiye and Azerbaijan’s requires peace” over the Karabakh dispute.
Aliyev pledged that the 2 international locations will “all the time stand side-by-side.”
Türkiye was a key backer of Azerbaijan throughout the 44-day Karabakh warfare between Baku and Yerevan, which erupted on Sept. 27, 2020, and ended with a Russian-brokered cease-fire on Nov. 10. Through the faceoff that began in September 2020, Azerbaijan liberated a number of cities and 300 settlements and villages that had been occupied by Armenia for almost three a long time. The peace settlement is well known as a triumph in Azerbaijan.
Reinforcing historic bonds
The protection ministers of the 2 international locations, Akar and Azerbaijani Protection Minister and Colonel Common Zakir Hasanov who had been on website with their command committees to supervise the primary day’s actions, additionally addressed the troopers.
Actions like this additional reinforce the bond between two brotherly nations with a shared tradition and deep historic ties, Akar contended.
Türkiye and Azerbaijan are “all the time one and united” towards any type of risk and hazard, he mentioned.
“Regardless of the place the risk or the provocation comes from,we all know the way to be a single navy, a single energy and a single fist with Azerbaijan. We view threats or provocations towards Türkiye or Azerbaijan as concentrating on each,” Akar mentioned.
“The world has witnessed and understood probably the most stunning instance of brotherhood throughout the ‘One Nation Operation’ while you liberated lands that had been occupied by Armenia for 30 years,” he added.
He defined that whereas the world undergoes a essential interval through which uncertainty, dangers, threats, and risks enhance, the facilitation of Türkiye and Azerbaijan’s safety is “solely potential by having an efficient, dissuasive, and respectable military.”
“And for a strong navy, fashionable warfare weapons, automobiles, and instruments, in addition to well-trained personnel that may function this gear are important,” he famous and described navy workouts as “the simplest manner of coaching personnel for the circumstances of a subject operation”.
Akar lauded President Erdoğan and President Aliyev’s “astute” management in working to convey peace and stability to the South Caucasus. “Their efforts should be supported by all for everlasting peace. Our real want is that Armenia takes the olive department Türkiye and Armenia are extending,” he mentioned.
