At the opening ceremony of the new Tekirdag-Hayrabolu road, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Mustafa Shentop congratulated Azerbaijan on its victory in the Karabakh war, noting that Turkey's road and rail links to Central Asia via Nakhchivan were a great success. This was reported by Anadolu Agency. M. Shentop stressed that the importance attached to the Nakhchivan border gate in the time of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was not accidental.
"The importance that the founder of our state Gazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk attached to the Nakhchivan border gate and his efforts to keep the border gate open paid off years later. As a country, we experience the joy of this. We will always revive the historic Silk Road together and improve our economic, cultural, political and military ties with our brothers in Central Asia. "We will transfer our communication investments in our country and our contracting experience in this area to Central Asia," he said