Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (right) with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Baku on Dec. 10 With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by his side, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev presided over a parade staged to “celebrate” Azerbaijan’s victory in the Karabakh War. “We proved that a military solution to Karabakh conflict was possible,” boasted Aliyev during a speech at the parade. He went on to recite more threats, claiming that Zangerzur, Sevan and Yerevan were all “Azerbaijani territories. The parade led by soldiers who attacked Artsakh and included a reported 3,000 Turkish troops, as well as the now infamous Turkish-made Bayrakdar drones, which were deployed during the war and caused massive destruction to military and civilian targets in Artsakh.