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Azerbaijan is considering lifting its visa requirements for Turkish citizens, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov was reported as saying yesterday.
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Azerbaijan has already annulled the visa regime for Turkish citizens with diplomatic and service passports and “now we are talking about abolishing visas for other Turkish nationals wishing to come to Azerbaijan,” Polukhov was quoted as saying by Azerbaijani news portal Trend News. Polukhov’s remarks came after Turkish media reported on Thursday that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had told his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputies about Baku’s preparations to lift the visa requirements at a party meeting this week. Relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan were strained over prospects of Turkey reopening its border with neighboring Armenia without a solution in Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey and Armenia signed two protocols on restoring their relations in October. Azerbaijan, which lost a war with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s, fears it would lose major leverage in the territorial conflict with Yerevan if ally Turkey opens its border with Armenia.
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