As we have already informed, a number of representatives of leading newspapers of Turkey have visited our country. Their structure include employees of newspapers as "Zaman", "Todays Zaman", "Hurriyet", "Hurriyet Daily News", "Star" and "Radikal".
The purpose of the visit implemented by the initiative of
Azerbaijan Embassy in Turkey is to agitate co-operation with media of the
brother country for comprehensively presentation of Azerbaijan history,
culture, contemporary policy, economic potential, Nagorno Karabagh problem and
its heavy results to Turkey publicity. It is planned to be held meetings with
Turkish journalists in the state and government organizations within the
framework of the visit. Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev has met
with Turkish journalists. Minister stressed important role of the media on
expanding cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey. It was noted that, there
was a great role of the Mass media on promotion of our country’s history and
culture and properly informing the world about Azerbaijan realities. Minister
of the Culture and Tourism stressed that, Azerbaijan was the most developed
country in the region and talked about expanding of the relations in the field
of culture and tourism. In particular, he appreciated contribution of Turkish
specialists to the tourism industry of our country. ”There was held meeting
with the chiefs of the leading Turkish tourism organizations recently. We
highly appreciate Turkey’s role on improvement of Azerbaijan tourism industry.
At present a lot of Turkish professionals work in the hotel industry of
Azerbaijan” - minister said. Journalists have been informed of the
International Mugham Festival which has taken place in March of current year,
World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue which has taken place in April in Baku,
and also the Third International Music festival which is underway in Gabala.
Speaking about Armenians’ encroachment on our country he also said, Armenians
tried to appropriate our national music, historical monuments and even our
ethnic cuisine.
Turkish journalists have been informed of the condition of historical monuments
affected by the Armenians and also realities and consequences of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Media representatives of Turkey were interested in
the work done for preparation to "Eurovision song contest -2012”.