Baku to host 1st Forum of Heads of Diaspora Organizations of Member Countries of Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States 

Baku, June 19 (AzerTAc). Baku will host the first Forum of Heads of Diaspora Organizations of Member Countries of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States on June 21. The event will bring together nearly 500 representatives from 44 countries. Most of them are heads or representatives of Azerbaijani, Turkish, Kazakh and Kyrgyz diaspora organizations. The forum will also be attended by representatives of state and government institutions, NGOs, academic, cultural and other structures. The forum is also expected to be attended by the General Secretary of the International Organization of Turkic Culture Dusen Kaseinov, first deputy chairman of the board of the World Organization of the Kazakhs Talgat Mamashev, Minister of Labour, Migration and Youth of Kyrgyzstan Alisbek Alymkulov, head of the Department for Turks abroad under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkey, Kemal Yurtnacha, Adviser to the Prime Minister of Turkey Sadettin Kilic, and rector of the International Turkic Academy Shakimashrip Ibraev. The forum will discuss the areas of cooperation between Diaspora organizations of Turkic-speaking countries, prospects for joint activities to address the problems of the Turkic world, implementation of the “Strategy of joint activities of Diaspora organizations of Turkic Speaking States” signed on May 14 in Ankara. The forum will be concluded with adoption of a Baku Declaration. The decision to hold the forum in the capital of Azerbaijan was adopted in January of this year at the first meeting of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States in Baku.