Report’s two sentences on the law name no number and no Milli Majlis vote, and the treaty’s text is absent from the page. The document was signed at Cholpon-Ata on 31 July during Aliyev’s visit to Kyrgyzstan, by the agency’s dateline. Kyrgyz ratification is also absent.
The invitation puts Aliyev in Ankara eight days after the Kyrgyz treaty became law in Baku.
Baku’s word “allied” already applies to Turkey, through the Shusha Declaration of June 2021, and to Uzbekistan, through the declaration of June 2022. With Kyrgyzstan it now stands in a treaty approved by law, a step above a declaration in the region’s bilateral vocabulary.
The call came at 20:08 Baku by Report’s print. Erdogan and Aliyev discussed bilateral relations and regional and global questions, Erdogan said cooperation based on fraternal relations would reach a still higher level, and Aliyev thanked him for the congratulations on the 35th anniversary of the restoration of state independence. Whether the invitation was accepted is a line the page does not carry.
The Ankara summit on 29 and 30 October is the next meeting of the group to which Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Turkey all belong, nine days after TurkPA’s plenary in Bishkek passed the assembly’s chair from Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan, as CAW reported on 21 October. The invitation puts Aliyev in Ankara eight days after the Kyrgyz treaty became law in Baku.
What the treaty obliges Bishkek and Baku to do is in a text the agency’s report does not quote. The sequence it belongs to is clear enough: a Kyrgyz presidency of TurkPA, an Azerbaijani alliance treaty and a Turkish summit between 20 and 30 October.