Yerevan /Mediamax/. After the photographs were published in the American media, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was forced to admit that there are Turkish F-16 aircrafts on the territory of his country.

In an interview with CNN Arabic on October 8, Ilham Aliyev said that “F-16 aircrafts are on the ground” and emphasized it several times.

He stated that “F-16s came to Azerbaijan to for military exercises. However, he failed to explain why they remained in Azerbaijan a month after the exercises were over.

Assistant to Azerbaijani President Hikmet Hajiev still claims that there are no Turkish F-16 in Azerbaijan.

“There are myth makers and myth busters: in this case, I will be a myth buster. Azerbaijan doesn't have F-16s - there aren't any on our soil or in our airspace,” Hajiev told The Spectator.

In the same interview, Aliyev’s assistant refuted the fact that Azerbaijan is using cluster munitions in its artillery strikes. When asked about why Azerbaijan is not a signatory to the 2008 convention which was signed in Oslo that bans the use of cluster munitions. Hajiev said:

“Our reservation about signing that treaty was because Armenia’s armed forces make extensive use of cluster munitions against us.”