Baku hosts 2nd Media Forum of Turkic-Speaking Countries and Communities

The 2nd Media Forum of Turkic-Speaking Countries and Communities will be started in Baku tomorrow.

Press Council of Azerbaijan said that the event will be organized by the Press Council and the Fund of State Support to the Development of Mass Media under the President of Azerbaijan.

Representatives of Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Northern Cyprus, Russian Federation’s republics of Tuva, Sakha, Khakasiya, Kabardin-Balkar, Karachay-Cherkes, Tatarstan, Bashkordistan, Ukraine’s Crimea Autonomous region, Moldova’s Gagauz Autonomous Territory, European Turkish communities, Iraq, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Kosovo will attend the forum.

Head of the public policy department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov will make report on “Azerbaijan’s state policy and media: priorities of cooperation with the Turkic-speaking countries and communities”.

Three meetings will be held within the forum and panel discussions will be organized in the second part of the event. Representatives of the participating countries and communities will report about the situation of their media organizations at the first meeting.

Two panels will be organized in the second meeting. First topic is “Media of Turkic-speaking countries and communities as uniting factor in the integration into the global information space”.

The second meeting will be dedicated to the situation of social media in the Turkic-speaking regions. The third meeting of the forum will determine duties of the Media Union of the Turkic-Speaking Countries and Communities, which was established at the 1st Media Forum of the Turkic-Speaking Countries and Communities held in Ankara last December.


/APA/