Rivalry persists between Russia and Turkey in their shared neighbourhood of the Black Sea and the South Caucasus. But Moscow-Ankara relations have warmed overall. Building on their wider rapprochement, the two powers can work together to tamp down flare-ups of ...
BAKU — Azerbaijan has displayed a Turkish-made cruise missile in a military parade to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Azeri Armed Forces, Hurriet Daily News reports. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency on June 26 described the event as ...
By Xander Snyder Over the past month, there has been a small but meaningful escalation of tensions in the breakaway region of Nakhchivan in the South Caucasus. In late May, Azerbaijani media reported that the country’s military seized new territory in ...
DUESSELDORF, Germany, June 27 (Reuters) – German defence group Rheinmetall said on Wednesday it was studying business opportunities with Azerbaijan, which for more than two decades has been subject to an international arms embargo. The Duesseldorf-based firm, which makes armoured tracked ...
The US Senate passed the 2019 defense bill , which excludes Turkey from the F-35 jets supply program. In turn, Ankara said that it will not refuse buying Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-400. Recently, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said ...
The acquisition also complicates Yerevan’s relations with Belarus, which is a treaty ally of Armenia but sold the weapons to its enemy, Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has displayed new missiles it has bought from Belarus and Israel, the latest escalation in the ...
Azerbaijan’s Defense Industry (DI) Minister Yaver Jamalov said, on April 27, that 89 percent of domestic DI output during the first quarter of 2018 was made up of special-purpose defense products, some of which are exported to more than ten ...
The mass street protests across Armenia, which began in late March, forced the resignation, on April 23, of Serzh Sargsyan, who had recently taken over as prime minister (with strengthened constitutional powers) after ruling as president for the last decade. ...
EU-Azeri relations have “never been better”, says Sajjad Karim, the Conservative MEP who co-chairs the EU-Azerbaijan parliamentary co-operation committee. Speaking with EURACTIV after last week’s two-day meeting of the EU-Azerbaijan Co-operation Committee in Baku, Karim acknowledges that the thaw is a ...
May 8 marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the occupation of the largest cultural centre of Azerbaijan – Shusha by Armenian bandit formations May 7-8, 1992, a city with a 250-year history that was built on the land of Karabakh by the ...