Azerbaijan is ready to "contribute to reducing and ending the tensions in Russian-Turkish relations," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said earlier today at a meeting with Turkey's Foreign Minister in Baku.

On November 26, Azerbaijan's Deputy Prime Minister said he was ready to help facilitate reconciliation between Russia and Turkey. "Azerbaijan does not wish for hostility between these two friendly nations," he said.

On November 25, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said that Ankara is doing everything possible to "liberate" Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan considers to be territory occupied by the Armenian-populated unrecognized Artsakh Republic.

On November 24, a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down in Syria earlier today, while conducting airstrikes against terrorist targets near the Turkish border. Turkey says the plane violated its airspace 10 times within a five-minute period, which defense officials in Moscow flatly deny.