Former Turkish PM becomes member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center

Baku, August 10, AZERTAC

Former Prime Minister of Turkiye Binali Yildirim, who is also former Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, has become a member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC).

Binali Yildirim, who is currently Deputy Chair of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkiye, served as the Turkish Prime Minister in 2016-2018, as well as the Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly in 2018-2019.

NGIC Secretary General Rovshan Muradov said that the Center has become one of the important platforms where issues of global concern are discussed. "During the first ten years of its starting, the Center has organized high-level meetings in various countries such as Bulgaria, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkiye, Ukraine, and the United States,” he added.

Established in 2012, the NGIC was created with the multiple aims of preserving the reach cultural heritage of the past, as well as encouraging and fostering current scholarship, research, cultural activity and social outreach, with aim to be a center of excellence for the production of knowledge and to be a place of dialogue and understanding between cultures and peoples.