4th Meeting of the Ministers and High Officials in charge of Media and Information of the Organization of Turkic States

The 4th Meeting of the Ministers and High Officials in charge of Media and Information of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) was co-hosted by the Director of Communications of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, H.E. Prof. Fahrettin Altun and the Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States H.E. Baghdad Amreyev on 14 May 2022 in Istanbul, Türkiye.

The meeting was moderated by H.E. Baghdad Amreyev and attended by the Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Affairs of the Presidential Administration, H.E. Mr. Hikmat Hajiyev, Minister of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, H.E. Mr. Askar Umarov, Head of Information Policy Department of the Ministry of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ms. Salkyn Sarnogoeva, Director of the Agency of Information and Mass Communications under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, H.E. Mr. Asadjon Khodjaev, State Secretary for Security Policy of Hungary, H.E. Mr. Peter Sztaray and Ambassador of Turkmenistan in Türkiye, H.E. Ishankuli Amanlyev.

President of Türkiye, H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a video message to the Meeting. Secretary General Baghdad Amreyev in his opening speech, highlighted the importance of Media and Information as well as the growing influence of social media and new media tools and emphasized that OTS shows every effort to increase cooperation and coordination among the members and Observer States.

Secretary General noted that in the upcoming period, projects such as preparing joint TV news and programs, exchange programs for the media professionals, deepening the cooperation among the public and private broadcasters, establishing the Turkic News Agencies Union, forming the “Association of Journalists of the Organization of Turkic States" as well as organizing the International Media Forum on an annual basis are our agenda.