Turkey and its regional ally Azerbaijan on Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to “lasting peace and stability” in the South Caucasus region. Top diplomats from Turkey and Azerbaijan held talks in the capital Ankara on several sticking issues including ongoing peace negotiations between Baku and Yerevan. “In our meeting today, we reaffirmed our common desire for lasting peace and stability to be established in the South Caucasus as soon as possible,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a news conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov. “In this context, we evaluated t…