Azeri first lady gets award for merits to Turkic world
BAKU – Azerbaijani First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva has been conferred an award marking her contribution to the development of the Turkic world, Yahya Akengin, head of TURKSAV, the awarding organization, told the presentation ceremony in Baku on Thursday.
Aliyeva, president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, was honored for her efforts in implementing a number of the Foundation’s humanitarian aid programs benefiting the persons displaced due to the Armenian occupation of Azerbaijan’s territories, as well as protecting the cultural monuments and intangible cultural heritage of Azerbaijani Turks.
Since Aliyeva is currently on a foreign visit, the Turkic World Service award was presented to Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic.
TURKSAV chairman Akengin said that the award is conferred to the people and organizations that have made a great contribution to the development of the Turkic world. Initially granted in Turkey, the award began to be conferred in other Turkic countries in the following years, he said.
Akengin added that the award was once conferred to Azerbaijan’s late national leader, former President Heydar Aliyev and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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