Baku, Azerbaijan, March 16
By Elchin Mehdiyev - Trend:
The visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Turkey March 15 has opened a new page in relations between the two countries, MP of Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan Fazail Agamali told Trend March 16.
The fifth meeting of the Turkey-Azerbaijan High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council was to be held in Baku, Agamali said, but due to another terrorist attack that took place in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again postponed his visit to Baku, according to the MP.
A car bomb exploded in Ankara on March 13, near a crowded bus stop. The explosion killed as many as 37 people, 125 more got injured.
"The president's visit to Turkey in this situation showed how deep the relations of friendship and brotherhood between the two countries are," said Agamali.
He went on to add that this meeting raised the Azerbaijani-Turkish strategic partnership to an even higher level.