Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will host the Organization of Turkic States’ 13th summit in Ankara on Oct. 30, with unity as the gathering’s stated focus.
The Council of Foreign Ministers is scheduled to meet Thursday, Oct. 29, ahead of the leaders’ summit, Anadolu Agency reported. The OTS notice sets the leaders’ meeting for Friday and names Erdoğan as host. It gives the theme as “Turkic Century: Unity in Language, Thought and Deed.”
Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications said Erdoğan invited Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during an Oct. 21 phone call. The leaders discussed bilateral relations and “regional and global developments,” the directorate said. Erdoğan also congratulated Aliyev on the 35th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s independence and spoke of expanding cooperation, according to the directorate.
The summit follows Erdoğan’s invitation to Aliyev.
