Developıng Azerbaıjan and Türkiye Relations

Abstract

Azerbaijan-Türkiye relations have been residing for a long time because of the fact that they have the same origin about religion, language and culture. Though tensions happened in Azerbaijan-Türkiye relations now and again, it usually based on friendship and brotherhood. Until the 1990s, the Republic of Azerbaijan, part of the USSR for a long time, gained its independence after 1991, and immediately after its independence, Turkish-Azerbaijani relations began to develop in the political and economic spheres. After this historical period Azerbaijan and Türkiye got closer and relations have reached to the level of strategic partnership. This conditions have brought up its influence in social, economic, and political sphere and these states acting together changed themselves to regional policy.

Turkey-Azerbaijan relations have an extremely special and unique character, the like of which is not found in the international system. The relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan, which have put the slogan “One nation two states” into official discourse and action today, are not based only on the unity of language, religion and ancestry. There have been economical, social, political, cultural and military dimensions of Azerbaijan and Türkiye relations.

In this study we researched different character of Azerbaijan and Türkiye from past to present.