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Erdoğan and Aliyev vow unbreakable alliance on Azerbaijan's Victory Day in Shusha
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan joined Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Shusha for the sixth anniversary of the 2020 Karabakh war, with both leaders saying no one could weaken the bond between their countries.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan traveled to Azerbaijan's Karabakh region on Sunday at the invitation of President Ilham Aliyev to mark Victory Day, the anniversary of the end of the 44-day war in 2020. After an official welcome ceremony and a one-on-one meeting in Shusha, the two leaders delivered joint press statements.
Aliyev recalled that Erdoğan had backed Azerbaijan from the first hours of the war. "Your historic words, 'Azerbaijan is not alone, Türkiye is by its side,' will never be forgotten," he said. "Türkiye and Azerbaijan are brotherly nations. There are no other peoples or states in the world as closely tied to each other. Our unity and brotherhood are unshakable, and those who wish to shake them will never achieve their goal."
Erdoğan said the brotherhood between the two countries went "far beyond a shared language, history and culture." Referring to the Shusha Declaration signed on June 15, 2021, which formalized the alliance, he said those seeking to weaken it "will never achieve their aims, not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow."
The Turkish leader said the task now was to crown the battlefield victory with lasting peace and stability in the South Caucasus. He announced the opening of a Türkiye-Azerbaijan international forestry training center and nursery in Jabrayil, and said construction had begun on a 40-classroom school in Aghdam that the two presidents plan to open next year.
Later in the day, Erdoğan and Aliyev posed for photographs in front of Shusha Fortress, visited the Khojaly Genocide Memorial and laid wreaths at the Victory Monument in Khankendi.
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