Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived on a two-day visit in Baku today.
As part of the visit, Erdogan and Ilham Aliyev will visit Shusha city liberated from the Armenian occupation in the last year’s war.
Erdogan will be the first foreign leader to visit Nagorno-Karabakh after the war. He announced his visit to Shusha back in March.
Erdogan and Aliyev will also watch a football match between the national teams of Turkey and Wales to be held on June 16 in Baku as part of Euro 2020.
Shusha was the last Azerbaijani city to be liberated in Second Karabakh war in 2020 that saw Azerbaijan win back most of its territories lost during the war in the early 1990s.
Shusha has for centuries been the center of Azerbaijani culture and art and has symbolic significance for the country. The city was also declared Azerbaijan’s cultural capital on May 7.
