"Under the instructions of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan will send aid teams to brotherly Turkey to extinguish forest fires and prevent them from taking a wider scale," said Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration.
Report quotes him as saying that President Ilham Aliyev gave the necessary instructions to the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan and the Ministry of Emergency Situations: "Relevant government agencies have contacted their counterparts from Turkey, and aid teams will leave for the brotherly country as soon as possible."