Azerbaijani President Aliyev to visit Türkiye for talks with President Erdogan

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will visit the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Wednesday to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to Türkiye‘s communications director.

At Erdogan’s invitation, the leaders will meet at the Presidential Complex, Fahrettin Altun announced on X on Tuesday.

Azerbaycan Cumhurbaşkanı İlham Aliyev, Cumhurbaşkanımız Sayın Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın davetine icabetle, 5 Mart 2025 tarihinde Ankara’yı ziyaret edecektir.

Cumhurbaşkanlığı Külliyesinde yapılacak görüşmelerde, Türkiye ile Azerbaycan arasındaki kardeşlik bağlarının daha da…

— Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) March 4, 2025

They are expected to discuss steps to further strengthen the “brotherly ties” between Ankara and Baku, as well as regional and global developments.

“On the occasion of the visit, a live connection will be carried out for the opening ceremony of the Igdir-Nakhchivan Natural Gas Pipeline, which was jointly initiated by President Erdogan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Sep. 25, 2023,” Altun added.

Igdir-Nakhchivan is a new 85-kilometer (53-mile) gas pipeline that will run from Türkiye’s eastern province of Igdir to Sederek in western Azerbaijan, with an annual capacity of 500 million cubic meters.