(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 25. Trend News Agency
reviewed the first year results of Turkic.World , the first joint media platform of
Turkic-speaking countries, on May 25, Trend reports.
The event was attended by Head of Turkey's Albayrak Media Group
Omer Karaca, Deputy Director General of Trend News Agency Rufiz
Hafizoglu, Deputy Director General of Trend News Agency Sahil
Karimli, Editor-in-Chief of Trend News Agency Emin Aliyev and
others.
While delivering an opening speech, Sahil Karimli emphasized the
significant achievements of the Turkic.World media platform over the year.
'The Azerbaijani media has entered the essential development
stage through the efforts of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev
and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva in this direction. Thus, young
professionals' interest in the media has significantly risen, the
process of improving professional qualifications of staff is
successfully continuing. Our primary goal is to convey the
realities of Azerbaijan to the world, as well as protect the
national interests of the country.
He talked about the information battle during the 44-day second
Karabakh war, waged by President of Azerbaijan, Victorious Supreme
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev.
'The president's interviews with world leading media outlets
during the war, defending Azerbaijan's fair position, served as an
example for all media representatives. It was also a road map for
our future activities. As First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva
said, the duty of each of us is to protect the country's interests
not only on the battlefield, but also in front of a computer
monitor.
Karimli noted that all this poses serious and responsible tasks
for media representatives.
'We're jovial that the Turkic.World project has satisfied our expectations.
Several authoritative media, as well as state bodies of the
Turkic-speaking countries have joined the project in just a year.
The media platform's activity in Azerbaijani, Turkish, Kyrgyz,
Turkmen, Kazakh, Uzbek, English, as well as Russian languages
allows reaching a large readership and conveying our voice to the
rest of the world.'
Speaking at the event, Omar Karaca and Rufiz Hafizoglu
underscored the achievements of Turkic.World media platform over
the year.
The project brought together the leading media outlets of the
Turkic-speaking countries. Turkic.World has already been joined by Uzbek UZA
National News Agency, Kazakhstan's Kazinform International News
Agency JSC, Kabar Kyrgyz National News Agency and Turkmenistan's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Rufiz Hafizoglu added that the Turkic.World media platform was presented at
the media forum of the Turkic Council in Istanbul in 2021, and also
became a media partner of the 25th International Business Forum
(IBF), organized in Baku by Azerbaijan's Small and Medium Business
Development Agency (SMBDA) and the Independent Industrialists and
Businessmen Association of Turkey (MUSIAD). Furthermore, Turkic.World is the
official partner of TEKNOFEST International Aviation, Space and Technology
Festival.
Emin Aliyev stressed that the special attention paid by
President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva to
Azerbaijani media resulted in lots of international projects
implemented by Trend News Agency. Thus, one of such projects was
the Turkic.World media platform.
The Turkic.World media platform was launched in 2021 as a
result of cooperation between Trend News Agency and Albayrak Media
Group of Turkey with the support of Assistant of the President of
the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs
Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev.
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- Azerbaijan
- Trend news agency
- TURKIC.World
- Teknofest-2022
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