Turkey and Azerbaijan: One Nation – One State?

The article scrutinizes Turkish-Azerbaijani key areas of cooperation – political, economic, military-technical, cultural and humanitarian. For instance, in addition to intensive interaction at the level high-ranking political elites, Azerbaijani-Turkish unity context is largely built on basis classifying foreign policy partners into common friends enemies (the “friend-foe” principle). Thus, both Ankara Baku are building friendly relations with Turkic states Central Asia. At same time, Armenia acts as a “enemy”. In military sphere, seek form Turkey-oriented militarized structures and, moreover, create unified army long term. nature economic between Azerbaijan Turkey based competitive basis. Energy unifying time divisive factor since strive for leadership this area, seeking occupy special place regional energy market. humanitarian unfolding Turkey-centric integration particular importance. author comes conclusion that nowadays bilateral characterized by “merging” two countries single space, which manifests almost all fields interaction. Republic seeks influence order make it reference point “Turkic world” under its auspices. This trend most likely strengthen future.