Turkey refused to provide transit territory for Russian military base logistics in Gyumri [Armenia], 1news.az reports. The source emphasizes that after the August war, Russia lost all means to maintain military supplies for this base.

“Iran is the only country for Russia to ensure military logistics after Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia refused to provide transit to Gyumri. Through Iran, Russia maintains entire weapons delivery to the base, that further falls among Karabakhi separatists,” Military expert Uzeir Jafarov comments on the issue.

Jafarov’s colleague Ildrim Mamedov says Azerbaijani authorities should bring the issue before U.S. to re-launch the Caspian Guard program “to inspect Russia’s weapon delivery to Iran through Caspian Sea”. The expert hopes for U.S. Army Space, that “gets the Caucasus and Caspian territories situation in hand.”

According to Mamedov “it would be good if Pentagon provides us with its intelligence data on weapon delivery through this route.”