OFFICIAL NEWS
PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV ARRIVES IN TURKEY
At the Ataturk International Airport, the Azerbaijani leader was greeted by Turkish State Minister Mehmet Ali Shahin, Head of Istanbul Municipality Kadir Topbash, Governor of Istanbul Muammer Guler and other officials.
Today in Istanbul, President Ilham Aliyev will attend a ceremony to open a monument to National Leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev in district Sariyer, be presented with the Turkish “Ekovitrin” magazine’s “Politician of the Year in Eurasia” award, and meet in private with Presidents Ahmed Necdet Sezer of Turkey and Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia, and Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. There will also be a trilateral meeting between Presidents of Azerbaijan and Georgia and Prime Minister of Turkey.
Later the same day, a reception to mark the official inauguration of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline will be given on behalf of the Turkish President at “Chiragan” palace.