{"id":289950,"date":"2026-08-04T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=289950"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:21:48","slug":"hajiyev-says-zangezur-corridor-could-open-soon-enabling-direct-travel-between-istanbul-and-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/289950\/","title":{"rendered":"Hajiyev says \u2018Zangezur Corridor\u2019 could open soon, enabling direct travel between Istanbul and Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Azerbaijani president&rsquo;s aide Hikmet Hajiyev has expressed confidence that the &ldquo;Zangezur Corridor&rdquo; will open in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani official made the remarks in an interview with CNN T&uuml;rk.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hajiyev, Azerbaijan has almost completed its part of the project. He said that Turkey is continuing the construction of a new railway line from Kars, while Armenia, together with the United States, has committed to building a 42-kilometre section.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If everything is completed, free movement between Istanbul and Baku will be possible in the near future,&rdquo; Hajiyev said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijani president&rsquo;s aide Hikmet Hajiyev has expressed confidence that the &ldquo;Zangezur Corridor&rdquo; will open in the near future. The Azerbaijani official made the remarks in an interview with CNN T&uuml;rk. According to Hajiyev, Azerbaijan has almost completed its part of the project. He said that Turkey is continuing the construction of a new railway line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":289678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,95,98,35,47,57,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-elections-en","category-azerbeijan","category-other-en","category-politics","category-society","category-top-news","category-turkey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289952,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289950\/revisions\/289952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}