Baku/16.09.19/Turan: The activities in Azerbaijan of a large number of small and medium enterprises in Turkey contribute to the development of economic cooperation. Commodity turnover between the two countries increased by 20 percent and exceeded $3 billion, stated Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay today in a meeting in Baku with the head of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
In turn, Aliyev expressed his conviction that the eighth meeting of the intergovernmental commission on cooperation in Baku, for which Fuad Oktay arrived, would have fruitful results.
Fuad Oktay also conveyed congratulations on the 101st anniversary of the liberation of Baku from foreign interventionists. The Turkish Vice President thanked the President of Azerbaijan for the abolition of the visa regime for Turkish citizens. This will give impetus to development in the field of tourism and business.
Oktay also pointed out that Ankara"s unambiguous position on the Karabakh issue remains unchanged in the international arena, which consists in demanding an end to the occupation of Azerbaijan"s territories by Armenia. -03D-
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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