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Discussions held in Ganja within â€œTurkish Weekâ€ in Azerbaijan

25 September 2012 11:16 (UTC +04:00)

Ganja. Aykhan Huseynov â€“ APA. A debate was organized at Ganja State University within the â€œTurkish Weekâ€ held in Azerbaijan. Farkhad Mammadov, the director of the Strategic Research Centre near the President of Azerbaijan said that bilateral meetings are being held within the cooperation between the strategic research centers of the two countries: â€œThe â€œAzerbaijani Weekâ€ was held in Turkey last yea. And this year, â€œTurkish weekâ€ is being held at several educational sources ofAzerbaijanâ€.

Speaking about the strategic cooperation between the two countries, Bulent Aras, the Head of the Strategic Research Centre near Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that both sides decided to hold intensive bilateral meetings in the regions, local universities, and scientific centers in order to get more information exchange between Azerbaijan and Turkey. B. Aras also noted that Azerbaijan and Turkey have highly developed strong strategic cooperation at bilateral level: â€œThere is a country that Turkish people always pay a special attention towards it and wants to be aware of its red and white days. This country is Azerbaijanâ€.

Delivering a speech at the event Vusala Mahirgizi the Director General of APA also touched upon the role of mass media in the development of Turkey-Azerbaijan relations: â€œThe relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey are at the highest level. And the illustrator of these relations is Media. The world community heard about the â€œ20 January eventsâ€ in Azerbaijan in 1990, thanks to Turkish â€œZamanâ€ newspaper. Then, Azerbaijan gained independence, and the first representatives of Mass media who came to Azerbaijan were TRT, Anadolu Agency, â€œZamanâ€ newspaper and other Turkish publicationsâ€.

V.Mahirgizi said Turkish Mediaâ€™s approach towards Azerbaijan must be highly appreciated: â€œMore than 100 thousands of people have organized a protest meeting at â€œTaksimâ€ square dedicated to Khojali genocide. And at that time, the biggest service in putting out the information on Khojali genocide to the world community was shown exactly by the Turkish mediaâ€.

APAâ€™s Director General said she wishes Turkish media especially give priority to the news concerning the Nagorno Karabakh conflict: â€œEach news dealing with each Turkish martyr, the victims of PKK terror is very for painful for us, being a representative of media we focus a special attention on such news. I wish Turkish media to put out any information on Azerbaijani martyrs killed by Armenian terrorists and let the world community to be aware of themâ€.

The head of analytical-analysis department of the Azerbaijani Parliamentâ€™s Apparatus Hatam Jabbarli spoke on the cooperation between the parliaments of Turkey and Azerbaijan. He said that the parliaments of both states cooperate both at bilateral level and within international organizations.

Note that, the delegation is expected to visit Azerbaijanâ€™s Aghdam region within the â€œTurkish Weekâ€ and meet with the IDPs.