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Angry at Turkey, energy-rich Azerbaijan may spurn West - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review

"Angry at Turkey, energy-rich Azerbaijan may spurn West

Michael Mainville
BAKU - Agence France-Presse

On a windswept hilltop looking down at the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Turkish flags flutter over a monument that testifies to decades of close ties between the two nations. Surrounding an obelisk bearing the Turkish crescent and star, stone blocks carry the names of dozens of Turkish soldiers who died while fighting for Azerbaijan's independence before it was absorbed into the Soviet Union in 1922."

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