The Shusha Declaration of June solidified the practical merger of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey. The Baku Declaration of this July added Pakistan to the arrangement. The recently-concluded Three Brothers – 2021 special operations forces war games in Azerbaijan made the alliance operational.

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A memorandum of understanding on joint training of Azerbaijani and Turkish special forces has been approved by the Azerbaijani Parliament

The Milli Majlis, guided by paragraph 4 of Part I of Article 95 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, approved a Memorandum of Understanding on joint training of special forces of the Azerbaijani Army and the Turkish Armed Forces.

The draft law on the approval of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Turkey on the training of special forces of the Azerbaijani Army and the Turkish Armed Forces was included in the agenda of the first parliamentary session on September 30.