BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 21. The Turkic world, of course, is much broader than the borders of national member states of the Organization of Turkic States, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said receiving Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States Baghdad Amreyev, Trend reports.
"Therefore, I am sure that our humanitarian ties, contacts
between people, with representatives of Turkic-speaking peoples
living on a vast geography will also be in demand in the future. In
any case, we, for our part, will do everything to strengthen the
unity among countries of our organization, support our brothers
living in various countries of the world, and we are talking of
tens of millions of our blood brothers. There are many more
Azerbaijanis living outside Azerbaijan than in the country alone.
Of course, their security, their rights and well-being are of the
utmost importance to us. We will continue to do everything to help
the Azerbaijanis who have found themselves cut off from our state,
to assist them in their development so that they preserve the
Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani traditions, Azerbaijani culture,
remain true to the principles of Azerbaijanism and never cut off
ties with their historical homeland, just as many representatives
of other peoples of our fraternal Turkic states live outside their
states. But I also know that all leaders of the Turkic states
attach great importance to how the rights of their brothers are
secured in various countries.
Therefore, I think we should also seriously discuss this topic
within the framework of the Organization of Turkic States in the
coming years – namely, the rights and security, the national
identity of our brothers who, by the will of fate, live outside the
member countries of the Organization of Turkic States," the head of
state said.