Erdogan and Aliyev had a telephone conversation

Presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ilham Aliyev had a telephone conversation. According to the press release of the Azerbaijani president's office, the conversation took place at the initiative of the Turkish side.

 Aliyev and Erdogan exchanged congratulations on the occasion of the Ramadan holiday, wished well-being and prosperity to the Azerbaijani and Turkish peoples.

"During the telephone conversation, the heads of state expressed confidence that Azerbaijani-Turkish friendship, brotherhood and alliance relations will develop and strengthen in all fields in the future, they exchanged ideas on the prospects of cooperation," the message says. According to the Turkish side, regional and global issues, as well as issues related to Turkey-Azerbaijan relations, were discussed during the conversation. It should be noted that this is the first telephone conversation between the leaders of the two countries after the defeat of the Justice and Development Party led by Erdogan in the local elections held in Turkey on May 31. After the elections, Aliyev did not call Erdogan after the elections, as he usually does. After the local government elections of 2014 and 2019, Aliyev called Erdogan an hour after the closing of the polling stations and the announcement of the preliminary results and congratulated him on the victory in the elections. Unlike Aliyev, on the evening of March 31, the presidents of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan praised Erdogan and congratulated him "for holding elections with democratic maturity."