Ilham Aliyev and his family at the COP31 summit in Antalya, welcomed by Erdoğan and Guterres

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Türkiye at about 19:10 on 10 November. On 11 November he took part, together with First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and their daughter Leyla Aliyeva, in the COP31 Leaders' Summit at the Expo Center in Antalya.

When he reached the venue at 12:15, he was welcomed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who greeted the other heads of state and government and delegation leaders in the same way. The summit participants then posed for a group photograph.

The two presidents met again three days after Erdoğan's 8 November visit to Azerbaijan. On the sidelines Aliyev also spoke briefly with the President of Northern Cyprus, Tufan Erhürman. No account of the Azerbaijani president's remarks at the summit had been published on his website at the time of writing.