Azerbaijan’s Master’s and PhD students to no longer get draft deferment  

Master’s and PhD students in Azerbaijan will no longer be able to get a draft deferment.

Chairman on the Milli Majlis Committee on Science and Education, İsa Hebibbeyli, who is also the Vice President of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), stated the aforementioned, Trend reports.  

The point on providing draft determent to Master’s and PhD students of Azerbaijani scientific and educational institutions has been excluded from the bill “On Science.”  

According to Hebibbeyli, the aforementioned point was excluded considering the escalation of tension on the Contact Line between the Azerbaijani and Karabakh armed forces.