President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulated the Turkic world on the 17th anniversary of the Nakhchivan Agreement and October 3 Turkic States Cooperation Day, wishing that "our unity, solidarity and togetherness on this path of brotherhood, which we set out on with the motto of unity in language, thought and action, will be everlasting."


Signed on October 3, 2009 by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye, the agreement founded the Turkic Council, renamed the Organization of Turkic States in 2021.
