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BAKU PLUS ANKARA
WPS Agency, Russia
December 19, 2013 Thursday
by Sokhbet Mamedov
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 276, December 19, 2013, p. 1
AZERBAIJAN AND TURKEY ADVANCE MILITARY COOPERATION; Military expert:
Signing of a major treaty between Azerbaijan and Turkey will change
the arrangement of forces in the region.
Sources within the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry say that the Turkish
delegation currently in Baku is headed by Colonel General Alparslan
Erdogan of the General Staff. Come to discuss bilateral military
and military-technical cooperation with Azerbaijan, the delegation
includes senior officers of the General Staff, National Security
Ministry, and some other security structures.
This bilateral military dialogue on the highest level has been under
way since 2007.
Some experts claim that the potential of the Azerbaijani-Turkish
military and military-technical cooperation is as good as untapped
yet. Military analyst Hatam Jabbarly said, "Sure, Azerbaijani-Turkish
ties in this sphere are fairly tight but... the lack of a major defense
treaty is definitely a shortcoming of truly strategic magnitude."
"Should Baku and Ankara sign a document analogous to the Security
Concept of signatories of the CIS Collective Security Treaty
Organization (Russia and Armenia subscribed to it in 1995), it will
almost certainly change the correlation of forces in the region,"
said Jabbarly.
Azerbaijan and Turkey signed the strategic cooperation and mutual
assistance treaty on August 16, 2010... but Jabbarly dismissed it
as insufficient because the document did little more than outline
general contours of cooperation. As matters stand, military cooperation
between Azerbaijan and Turkey is restricted to arms sales, intelligence
gathering, joint military exercises, and so on.
Like Russia and Israel, Turkey is one of the heaviest exporters of
military hardware to Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani military expects
thirty-six T-155 Firtina self-propelled howitzers from Turkey in 2014.
The contract between the two countries was signed in 2011.
Baku is also interested in T-129 ATAK helicopters, the ones the
Turks mean to display for the first time at ADEX-2014 arms show in
the capital of Azerbaijan in September 2014.
WPS'2013
[Translated from Russian]
WPS Agency, Russia
December 19, 2013 Thursday
by Sokhbet Mamedov
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 276, December 19, 2013, p. 1
AZERBAIJAN AND TURKEY ADVANCE MILITARY COOPERATION; Military expert:
Signing of a major treaty between Azerbaijan and Turkey will change
the arrangement of forces in the region.
Sources within the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry say that the Turkish
delegation currently in Baku is headed by Colonel General Alparslan
Erdogan of the General Staff. Come to discuss bilateral military
and military-technical cooperation with Azerbaijan, the delegation
includes senior officers of the General Staff, National Security
Ministry, and some other security structures.
This bilateral military dialogue on the highest level has been under
way since 2007.
Some experts claim that the potential of the Azerbaijani-Turkish
military and military-technical cooperation is as good as untapped
yet. Military analyst Hatam Jabbarly said, "Sure, Azerbaijani-Turkish
ties in this sphere are fairly tight but... the lack of a major defense
treaty is definitely a shortcoming of truly strategic magnitude."
"Should Baku and Ankara sign a document analogous to the Security
Concept of signatories of the CIS Collective Security Treaty
Organization (Russia and Armenia subscribed to it in 1995), it will
almost certainly change the correlation of forces in the region,"
said Jabbarly.
Azerbaijan and Turkey signed the strategic cooperation and mutual
assistance treaty on August 16, 2010... but Jabbarly dismissed it
as insufficient because the document did little more than outline
general contours of cooperation. As matters stand, military cooperation
between Azerbaijan and Turkey is restricted to arms sales, intelligence
gathering, joint military exercises, and so on.
Like Russia and Israel, Turkey is one of the heaviest exporters of
military hardware to Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani military expects
thirty-six T-155 Firtina self-propelled howitzers from Turkey in 2014.
The contract between the two countries was signed in 2011.
Baku is also interested in T-129 ATAK helicopters, the ones the
Turks mean to display for the first time at ADEX-2014 arms show in
the capital of Azerbaijan in September 2014.
WPS'2013
[Translated from Russian]