REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç paid various visits in Azerbaijan with the delegation accompanying him.

Minister Tunç met with Deputy Prime Minister Şahin Mustafayev, Chief Public Prosecutor Kamran Aliyev and President of the Supreme Court Inam Kerimov in Azerbaijan.

BILATERAL RELATIONS AND THE CURRENT STATUS OF JUDICIAL COOPERATION WERE DISCUSSED

Within the scope of his Baku visits, Minister of Justice Tunç met with Deputy Prime Minister Şahin Mustafayev at the Azerbaijan Council of Ministers.

Minister Tunç also visited the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan and held meetings with Chief Public Prosecutor Kamran Aliyev and then with the President of the Supreme Court Inam Kerimov.

During the meetings, the current state of judicial cooperation between Türkiye and Azerbaijan and the efforts to be endeavored to further improve the relations were discussed.

Minister Tunç, accompanied by the Co-Chair of the Türkiye-Azerbaijan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group and AK Party İstanbul MP Şamil Ayrım and Turkish Ambassador to Baku Cahit Bağcı, met with his counterpart Farid Ahmadov in the morning.

Tunç and Ahmadov signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening Capacity in the Field of Penal Execution and Release on Probation Systems" between Türkiye and Azerbaijan.