Turkey’s high ranking officers to visit Azerbaijan
By Aynur Jafarova
A delegation consisting of high ranking officers of the Turkish Armed Forces will visit Azerbaijan on January 7-9, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on December 30.
The delegation will visit the country in accordance with the program on bilateral cooperation of Azerbaijan and Turkey in the defense field.
Military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey was established in 1992 with an agreement on military education signed between the Azerbaijani and Turkish governments. Since then, the two governments have closely cooperated on defense and security.
In 2011, Azerbaijan and Turkey signed an agreement on joint production of long-range missiles. The deal envisioned joint production of 107 and 122 mm missiles by an Azerbaijani ministry and Turkish weapons manufacturer Roketsan.
More than 20 Turkish defense industry companies have cooperation and commercial relations with Azerbaijan.
Here we are to serve you with news right now. It does not cost much, but worth your attention.
Choose to support open, independent, quality journalism and subscribe on a monthly basis.
By subscribing to our online newspaper, you can have full digital access to all news, analysis, and much more.
You can also follow AzerNEWS on Twitter @AzerNewsAz or Facebook @AzerNewsNewspaper
Thank you!