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Azerbaijan is a client-state of Turkey. They aren't doing shit, including their current actions, without the watermelon seller's 100% approval.
That along with his recent shit-talking of the S-400 last week were Erdogan telling Putin he needs to make more tributes if he wants to keep this neutrality game going. Simply acting as a smuggling middle-man for oil and dual-use goods isn't enough anymore for Turkey's interests in the region. Erdogan is probably angling for complete Russian withdraw from Armenia (intelligence operations included) and abandonment of any future aspirations in Syria.
ie Russia must get out of the south Caucasus and Levant.
