Mr President, I would like to thank you very much for considering me worthy of this honour.

Axar.az reports that the statement came from the Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Erkan Ozoral during a meeting with President Ilham Aliyev on April 10.

"As you said, I have never separated Azerbaijan and Turkey. Both are my homeland, my first homeland, not my second. Both are equally my homeland. Ankara is as dear to me as Baku is to me. The result of this love is that I feel very happy. Because I was the ambassador who came to Azerbaijan and witnessed the best moments among all future Turkish ambassadors. It was a great pleasure for me to witness this war. I feel different," the ambassador said.