Numan Kurtulmus: "Six-party format can be an important step for start of peace in South Caucasus"

"The determination of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, Armenia, and Georgia, as six regional countries together, to resolve their issues is an important step for the start of a new era of peace in the South Caucasus," Numan Kurtulmus, first deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has said, Report informs.

He said that the Turkish-Azerbaijani relations are rapidly developing to take this step: "We have also close ties with the New Azerbaijan Party."

The first deputy chairman of the AKP noted that at the VIII Summit of the Organization of Turkic States in Istanbul on November 12, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan awarded Azerbaijani President, Victorious Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Ilham Aliyev a "Supreme Order of the Turkic World" order.