BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 19. A telephone conversation was held on September 19 between the First Deputy Defense Minister, Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijani Army Colonel General Karim Valiyev and Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces Army General Metin Gurak, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend.
In the course of the telephone conversation, the sides discussed anti-terrorist activities of local character carried out in Azerbaijan's Karabakh region.
It was especially emphasized that brotherly Türkiye, as always, is next to Azerbaijan.
Localized anti-terrorist measures have been launched in the region to restore the constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Civilians and infrastructure objects are not targets during localized anti-terrorist measures carried out in Azerbaijan's Karabakh region.
Only military targets belonging to illegal armed formations of the separatist regime are put out of action with the use of high-precision weapons available in the arsenal of the Azerbaijani Army.
In order to ensure the provisions of the Trilateral Statement, to suppress large-scale provocations in the Karabakh economic region, to disarm and withdraw Armenian armed forces formations from the territories of Azerbaijan, to neutralize their military infrastructure, to ensure the safety of civilians returning to the territories liberated from occupation, civil servants involved in construction and reconstruction works, and our military personnel, as well as to restore the constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan, anti-terrorist measures have been launched in the region.
It should be noted that on September 19, 2023, at about 04:00 (GMT+4) on the 58th kilometer of the Ahmedbeyli-Fuzuli-Shusha road passing through Khojavand district, a Hovo truck belonging to the State Road Agency of Azerbaijan exploded on an anti-tank mine. As a result of the terrorist attack, the driver and a passenger died on the spot.
The employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan went to the scene of the terrorist act on a Kamaz truck. At 04:30 (GMT+4) on the newly built tunnel road near the village of Taghavard in the Khojavand region, as a result of a terrorist act, the KAMAZ truck exploded on a mine planted by a sabotage group of Armenian illegal armed groups on the territory of Azerbaijan, where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily stationed.
The employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Asim Jamalzade (born in 1994), Ramil Shirinov (born in 1987), Seymur Mahmudov (born in 1991), and Khazar Zamanov (born in 1998), died on the spot.