To mark the 103rd anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Türkiye, Türkiye’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Birol Akgün, laid wreaths at Turkish and Azerbaijani martyr memorials in Baku.

Embassy and military attaché office staff, advisers, representatives of Turkish institutions and nongovernmental organizations, businesspeople, students, teachers and parents from Turkish schools in Baku, as well as Turkish citizens, attended the ceremony. Participants laid carnations at the martyrs’ graves and recited a prayer.
Atatürk commemorated in Baku
The embassy commemorated Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic, all the heroes of the national liberation struggle and those who contributed to the Republic’s development.

The Turkish Martyrs’ Memorial in Baku is dedicated to soldiers of the Caucasus Islamic Army who died in 1918 while liberating the city.