Turkish soldiers will be engaged at the ceasefire monitoring center of the Russian Federation in Nagorno-Karabakh in the course of one year, RIA Novosti reported, citing the Turkish Ministry of Defense.

Turkish Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar informed that Turkish soldiers will be heading to Azerbaijan and that preparation of the ground troops is over.

On November 11, President Erdogan declared that Ankara and Moscow have signed a memorandum on the creation of a ceasefire control center in Nagorno-Karabakh and that Turkey will participate “in the joint peacekeeping mission”. Before this, Spokesperson of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov had declared that Moscow and Ankara will work at the monitoring center in the territory of Azerbaijan and that “there was nothing mentioned about joint peacekeeping forces”.