Azerbaijan`s Minister of Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov has left for Istanbul, Turkey to join the Turkic Council meeting of Ministers of Youth and Sports.

The participants will discuss the a range of issues including the organization of the Youth Festival, as well as Turkish Universiade in Azerbaijan.

The Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council) was established in 2009 as an international intergovernmental organization, with the overarching aim of promoting comprehensive cooperation among Turkic Speaking States. Its four founding member States are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey.

Turkic Council is an organization dedicated to strengthening peace and stability, promoting wide-ranging cooperation and disclosing the potential for common development amongst its member states.