Turkey’s president on Tuesday congratulated the Azerbaijani leader and people on the 102nd anniversary of the capital Baku’s liberation from Armenian and Bolshevik occupation.
ERDOĞAN COMMEMORATED ALL MARTYRS AND HEROES OF GLORIOUS FIGHT
Over the phone with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan underlined that the Caucasus Islamic Army under the leadership of Nuri Pasha (Killigil), who came to the aid of the brotherly Azerbaijan from Anatolia 102 years ago, signed a “historic victory shoulder to shoulder” with the Azerbaijani National Army, according to Turkey’s Communications Directorate.
Erdoğan congratulates Azerbaijani leader for Baku’s liberation WATCH
Reiterating the commitment to deepen and strengthen the cooperation of Turkey-Azerbaijan relations in all areas under the “two states, one nation” maxim, Erdoğan said his country will always strongly support Azerbaijan.
He stressed that Turkey, just like Azerbaijan, has the same enthusiasm and pride on the occasion of Baku’s liberation.
On Sept. 15, 1918, an elite Ottoman force called the Caucasian Islamic Army under the leadership of the 29-year-old Nuri Pasha was sent by then-Minister of War Enver Pasha to what is today Azerbaijan in the closing months of World War I in response to a plea from the region’s people.