Turkey to build gas pipeline to supply Nakhichevan

DAVID O’BYRNE
eurasianet.org

Turkey’s state gas grid operator Botaş has opened a tender for a gas pipeline to supply Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhichevan. The new supply route would sideline Iranian gas sales to Azerbaijan and comes as Ankara is trying to repair its relationship with the United States.

Sandwiched between Iran and Armenia and sharing a tiny border with Turkey, Nakhichevan has long relied on Iran for natural gas for both domestic heating and power generation.
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Armenia’s Chief of General Staff: “We often retaliate against Azerbaijan”

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian army, Lieutenant General Artak Davtyan has stated that “we are often forced to conduct retaliatory measures against Azerbaijani armed forces to stop the attacks they initiate”.
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Turkey’s Heavy ‘Tiger’ Rocket Spotted in Azerbaijan’s Nakhijevan Exclave

By: Can Kasapoglu
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 17 Issue: 69

Baku has initiated large-scale weapons readiness efforts in Nakhijevan. The official YouTube channel of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense features a video showing Turkish-manufactured multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) stationed in the strategic western exclave (YouTube, May 2). Of these arms, the 300-millimeter TRG-300 Kaplan (Tiger) deserves special attention, particularly in light of the delicate regional military balance between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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Historic Armenian monuments were obliterated. Some call it ‘cultural genocide’

CATHERINE WOMACK
For centuries the sacred khachkars of Djulfa stood tall along the banks of the River Aras — hulking and ornately carved 16th-century headstones, an army 10,000 strong, steadfastly guarding the world’s largest medieval Armenian cemetery. Earthquakes, war and vandalism diminished their ranks, but by the middle of the 20th century, thousands of khachkars still remained.
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The Iran-Turkey-Armenia Borders as Depicted in Various Maps

Author: Bournoutian, George
Source: Iran & The Caucasus . 2015, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p97-107. 11p.
Document Type: Article
Subject: * BOUNDARIES * MAPS * TREATIES — History * TWENTIETH century * HISTORY IRAN — Foreign relations — 1925-1941 TURKEY — Foreign relations — 1918-1960
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Azerbaijan: The Undesirable Neighbor of the Caucasus

EDITORIAL
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
by Edmond Y. Azadian

The news that Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev is suffering from poor health and has not made a public appearance in the last two weeks does not bother that country’s citizens too much, because their government apparatus is on auto-pilot; it is teleguided from Ankara, following the policies of its Big Brother.

Indeed, Ankara, particularly during the era of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has set its sights on its neighbors’ territories. After occupying 38 percent of Cyprus, Turkey has been involved in a landgrab rampage in Iraq and Syria.
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