Anadolu Agency (AA), Turkey
Friday
Turkish interior minister meets Azerbaijani president
Suleyman Soylu says Azerbaijan's sorrow is Turkey's too, including first and foremost Upper Karabakh issue
By Muhammed Boztepe
BAKU
Good relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan make a great contribution to the region, said the Turkish interior minister on Friday.
On the last day of a two-day official visit to the capital Baku, Suleyman Soylu met with Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan's president.
In the section of the meeting open to reporters, Soylu expressed solidarity with Azerbaijan on territorial issues, saying: "The Upper Karabakh issue first and foremost, your sorrow is our sorrow."
Aliyev told Soylu about continuing projects between Turkey and Azerbaijan, stressing that the two countries are friends.
Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in 1991 with military support from neighboring Armenia, and a peace process has yet to be implemented.
Three UN Security Council resolutions and two UN General Assembly resolutions refer to Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe refers to the region as being occupied by Armenian forces.