Türkiye-Azerbaijan Forestry Training Center and Nursery Facility opened in Cebrayıl

The foundation of the facility, established in Cebrayil, which was once occupied by Armenia, was laid by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev on October 20, 2022.

The facility, which was established on an area of ​​11.4 hectares with the contributions of the General Directorate of Forestry of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Republic of Turkey, has a total of 12 thousand 200 square meters of buildings and usage area.

This area includes the training center building, nursery administrative building, nursery workshop and sapling sales area. Sapling production will be carried out in an area of ​​47 thousand 300 square meters.

In the training center of the facility, which has an annual production capacity of 2 million saplings, theoretical and practical training with accommodation can be given to 400 people every year.

President Erdoğan described the facility as "a new sign of cooperation between Türkiye and Azerbaijan" at the joint press conference he held with Aliyev as part of his visit to Azerbaijan on November 8.

In his statement to journalists on the plane returning from Azerbaijan, Erdoğan said, "As Turkey, we provide all the support we can for the development of Karabakh, as it was during its liberation. We were pleased to bring the Turkey-Azerbaijan Forestry Training Center and Nursery Facility to Karabakh." He used the following expressions.