Erdoğan in Shusha: our brotherhood is an “ever-burning torch”, I want to open the 40-classroom school in Aghdam with Aliyev

In his press statement in Shusha on 8 November, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he was glad to be in Azerbaijan on the sixth anniversary of the Karabakh victory. He called the bond expressed in the motto “One nation, two states” an ever-burning torch lighting the way ahead, and said the brotherhood goes far beyond a shared language, history and culture.

Erdoğan mentioned the Azerbaijan-Türkiye International Forest Training Centre and the Smart Nursery set up in Jabrayil, and said he wants to open the 40-classroom school being built in Aghdam together with Aliyev next year. He noted that on the way from Fuzuli to Shusha they passed through seven tunnels, which shows how fast infrastructure is being built in the region.

He thanked Azerbaijan for its chairmanship of the Organization of Turkic States and said Türkiye will work to make the organisation stronger during its own term. He ended with lines by the poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzade and congratulations on Flag Day on 9 November, wishing that the two flags would always fly side by side.