"Azerbaijan Embraces Northern Cyprus
Rufat Abbasov
The first commercial passenger aircraft flew from Baku to northern Cyprus on July 27, strengthening Azerbaijan’s ties with the internationally unrecognised territory.
It comes at time when the Caucasian state is having problems with its own territorial integrity.
On June 29, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliev said after receiving Turkish prime minister Recep Tayip Erdogan that the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ought to be allowed more contact with the rest of the world and that Baku was sympathetic to that goal."
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