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TurkPA closes its 15th plenary in Bishkek with a declaration and the next session in Türkiye

The Bishkek Declaration ended the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic States’ 15th plenary on Tuesday, the assembly’s site reported, after the speakers of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye, the Turkish Cypriot speaker as an observer and Uzbekistan’s Senate chair Tanzila Narbayeva as a guest had spoken. On the agenda were four model laws, the 2027 budget and the election of two deputy secretaries general.

By CAW Staff21 October 2026
An empty plenary hall after a sitting, with curved rows of desks and microphones, papers on the rostrum and one amber desk lamp still lit.

Delegates met under the theme “Parliamentary Cooperation in the Turkic World in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Technological Progress”, with Marlen Mamataliev opening as chairman-in-office and Sahiba Gafarova, Aibek Dadebai, Numan Kurtulmuş, Ziya Öztürkler and secretary general Ramil Hasan among the speakers, by the assembly’s report dated 20 October. Representatives came from the Organisation of Turkic States, TURKSOY, the Turkic Academy, the parliamentary assemblies of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and the OIC, CICA and the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly.

The agenda ran to the reports and recommendations of the permanent commissions and four model laws, on the protection of industrial property rights, on the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development, on joint ventures and on resorts, coastal wellness and natural treatment retreats, with the final reports of the assembly’s election observation missions and the budget for 2027. The page does not say which were adopted.

Representatives came from the Organisation of Turkic States, TURKSOY, the Turkic Academy, the parliamentary assemblies of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and the OIC, CICA and the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly.

Bektur Bazakechov, nominated by the Jogorku Kenesh, and Saulekul Sailaukyzy, nominated by Kazakhstan’s Kurultai, were elected deputy secretaries general. Kazakhstan’s Amirbek Ospanbekov took the chair of the commission on economic cooperation and Kyrgyzstan’s Ulukbek Karybek uulu the commission on education, culture, social and humanitarian affairs, with vice-chairs from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye.

The four speakers and the secretary general gave a press conference afterwards, and Sadyr Japarov received them the same day, reaffirming Kyrgyzstan’s interest in the assembly and in the Organisation of Turkic States, by the assembly’s separate report. “It was decided to hold the Sixteenth Plenary Session in 2026 in the Republic of Türkiye,” the report says, printing a year that has ten weeks left, and the plenary page does not carry the declaration’s text.

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