 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on September 25 to discuss the latest developments in the Karaba region, which Baku has retaken from ethnic Armenian separatists. Erdogan is paying a one-day visit to Azerbaijan's autonomous Nachivan Exclave, a strip of Azeri territory nestled between Armenia. Iran and Turkey dot Azerbaijan's victory in Nagorno-Karaba could change the delicate balance of power in the South Caucasus region, a patchwork of ethnicities. Chris crossed with oil and gas pipelines where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran are jostling for influence, Erdogan and Aliyev will also attend a ceremony for a gas pipeline that will bring gas to Nachivan and inaugurate a newly modernized military installation in the exclave, the Turkish presidency has said.