The TRNC member of the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States Tansel Fikri said that he believed that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) deserved international recognition just as much as the Greek Cypriot Administration did.

Fikri who attended the international conference titled “Heydar Aliyev and the contemporary Turkic world” in the Azerbaijani capital Baku expressed the view that international recognition for the TRNC was possible with the active support of friendly and brotherly Azerbaijan and other Turkic states.

An international conference entitled “Heydar Aliyev and the contemporary Turkic world” was held in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.

Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister of Education Firudin Gurbanov, Deputy Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States Yerzhan Mukash, officials and academics from Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan attended the conference.

A message from the Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States, Kubanicbek Omuraliyev, was read-out at the opening of the conference where the TRNC was represented by a delegation headed by the member of the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States Tansel Fikri.

The President of the Azerbaijan Council of Elders, Rector of the Azerbaijan Cooperation University Prof. Dr. Eldar Guliyev said that unity amongst Turkic states, which was the late Aliyev’s dream, had become a reality today.

Member of the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States Tansel Fikri, for his part noted that friend and brother nation Azerbaijan had always supported the Turkish Cypriots’ cause on the Cyprus issue.

Stressing that Azerbaijan had played a major role in the TRNC’s admittance to the Organization of Turkic States as an observer, Fikri said that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) deserved international recognition just as much as the Greek Cypriot Administration did.

“Sooner or later, the TRNC flag will take its place in the UN, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Organization of Turkic States,” he said.