The Press Office of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has published a letter from the Azerbaijani President addressed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulating him on the occasion of Turkey’s Republic Day (29 October). 

In the letter, Aliyev thanks the Turkish President for his ‘firm and unequivocal position on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict’ as well as his ‘unwavering support for (Azerbaijan’s) cause’.

He concludes the letter praising ‘the unshakable Azerbaijani-Turkish unity and brotherhood’  and the relationship between the two countries which he states ‘will continue to develop and strengthen in line with the slogan “One Nation, Two States”’.