Railway to link Turkey with Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan
A railway will be built to link Turkey with
Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, which has been under
Armenian economic blockade since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet
Union.
Turkey will soon tackle research in the area to be crossed by the Kars-Igdir-Nakhchivan rail line, a department head at Azerbaijan’s Transport Ministry said.
Sadraddin Mammadov said a tender has been announced to select the company that will carry out geological operations. The railroad, which will extend the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, stretching from Azerbaijan to Turkey through Georgia, will connect the autonomous republic with the rest of Azerbaijan, the Transport Ministry official said.
In 1921 pro-Armenian Soviet leaders granted Azerbaijan’s Zangazur region to Armenia, which geographically separated Nakhchivan from Azerbaijan. Armenia, which unleashed a war on the neighboring South Caucasus republic with territorial claims, fully took the region under economic blockade in 1991. Nakhchivan borders on Armenia, Iran and Turkey.
Mammadov noted that a 7 km rail line will be built to link Nakhchivan with Turkish territory.
He expressed hope that the Kars-Igdir-Nakhchivan railway will be constructed and put into operation in the coming years.*
Turkey will soon tackle research in the area to be crossed by the Kars-Igdir-Nakhchivan rail line, a department head at Azerbaijan’s Transport Ministry said.
Sadraddin Mammadov said a tender has been announced to select the company that will carry out geological operations. The railroad, which will extend the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, stretching from Azerbaijan to Turkey through Georgia, will connect the autonomous republic with the rest of Azerbaijan, the Transport Ministry official said.
In 1921 pro-Armenian Soviet leaders granted Azerbaijan’s Zangazur region to Armenia, which geographically separated Nakhchivan from Azerbaijan. Armenia, which unleashed a war on the neighboring South Caucasus republic with territorial claims, fully took the region under economic blockade in 1991. Nakhchivan borders on Armenia, Iran and Turkey.
Mammadov noted that a 7 km rail line will be built to link Nakhchivan with Turkish territory.
He expressed hope that the Kars-Igdir-Nakhchivan railway will be constructed and put into operation in the coming years.*
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