Published September 26,2023
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday careworn the significance of opening the Zangezur hall land route in southern Caucasus.
“Hopefully, we will realize the Zangezur corridor as soon as possible and make our road and rail communication with friendly and brotherly Azerbaijan uninterrupted through Nakhchivan,” Erdoğan stated after a Cabinet assembly within the capital Ankara.
The remarks come a day after his go to to Azerbaijan’s autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, the place he met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev to debate bilateral relations, regional and worldwide developments, significantly the latest state of affairs in Karabakh.
“We hope to turn our region into a basin of peace and prosperity through joint projects that will include our neighbor Iran,” he added.
The Zangezur area was initially a part of Azerbaijan, although the Soviets gave it to Armenia within the Nineteen Twenties, leaving Azerbaijan disadvantaged of a direct overland path to its exclave of Nakhchivan.
Following its 44-day warfare with Armenia in fall 2020, Azerbaijan has targeted on infrastructure together with motorways and a 43-kilometer (26.7-mile) railway by way of the hall.
The hall could be close to or adjoining to Armenia’s border with Iran, reportedly making Tehran involved the undertaking would possibly minimize off its frontier with Yerevan.
Earlier, Erdoğan stated opening of the hall is a “strategic issue” for Türkiye, and is “very important” for ties between Ankara and Baku.
Source: www.anews.com.tr