Peacekeepers approved by parliament for Azerbaijan

ANKARA, TURKEY » Turkey’s parliament on granted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government permission to deploy peacekeepers to Azerbaijan to monitor a cease-fire deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia that aims to end the conflict in the region. Legislators voted in favor of a one-year mandate allowing the government to send troops to Azerbaijan, where they would observe possible violations of the truce from a joint Turkish-Russian monitoring center. The cease-fire ended six weeks of intense fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Erdogan’s government would determine the number of troops to be sent and it wasn’t clear howmany the country planned to deploy.