Books on the Karabakh conflict have been exhibited at a symposium in Bursa on the violations of the rights of Turkic and Muslim peoples.
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The event involved 200 representatives from 50 countries, including Azerbaijani members of parliament, AzerTaj reports.
A minute’s silence was held at the opening of the symposium to commemorate Azerbaijan’s national leader, Heydar Aliyev.
The exhibition of more than 50 books on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenian atrocities and the Khojaly massacre was organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation in the foyer of the Almir Hotel.
Turkish State Minister Faruk Celik and Turkish MPs Sadat Gyzyljikli and Ali Kul visited the exhibition. Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva presented a book by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation to Faruk Celik. The books were presented to other participants in the symposium too.
Ganira Pashayeva told the symposium of the need to work together to protect the rights of Azerbaijanis forced to flee Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied Azerbaijani land and of other Turkic and Muslim peoples who have suffered violence.
State Minister Faruk Celik said that Azerbaijanis, Meskhetian Turks and refugees from Balkan countries lived in Bursa which made it an appropriate venue for the symposium. He said that joint efforts were needed to put an end to injustice towards Turkic and Muslim peoples.
Ganira Pashayeva and Rena Mirzazade, a member of the Azerbaijani president’s Council of State Support to Nongovernmental Organizations, met Seljuk Turkoglu, chairman of the Bursa provincial organization of the Turkish confederation of trade unions, which regularly holds events to raise awareness of Azerbaijan in Turkey.
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