Erdogan to visit ally Azerbaijan after Karabakh ceasefire

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit staunch ally Azerbaijan on December 9 and 10. (File/AFP)

• The planned visit is the first by a foreign head of state to Baku since the ceasefire

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit staunch ally Azerbaijan on December 9 and 10, his office said Thursday, following a truce that ended fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The planned visit is the first by a foreign head of state to Baku since the ceasefire, which ended six weeks of heavy fighting and saw ethnic Armenians agree to withdraw from large parts of the contested region of Azerbaijan.