Kazakhstan and Turkey held strategic sessions on the spheres of information and social development

Today, the joint strategic sessions of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the state bodies of Turkey, which were held online on June 3-4, 2021, ended today.

During today's events on June 4, productive discussions were held on the exchange of experience in the fields of information and the development of interethnic relations. Representatives of the Kazakh side noted that Kazakhstan and Turkey are linked by friendly relations, to which Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pay special attention.

Thus, the parties discussed issues of further cooperation in the fight against fake information, the need to build partnerships in the aspects of training media specialists, as well as an exchange of views on the holding of the 4th meeting of the ministers on diaspora issues of the Turkic Council, which includes Kazakhstan and Turkey.

In general, within the framework of a rich two-day program consisting of 4 thematic online meetings in 6 thematic areas, representatives of Kazakhstan and Turkey discussed a wide range of issues, which include the development of civil society, youth policy, information and media, regulation of religious activity, development of interethnic relations.

On the part of Kazakhstan, the structural subdivisions of the IIOR of the Republic of Kazakhstan took part, in particular, the committees for civil society, information, youth and family affairs, the development of interethnic relations, the Department of State Policy in the Media, as well as the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Kazakhstan, the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives , National Volunteer Network, Youth Research Center, Otandastar Foundation.

Turkey was represented by the General Directorate of Public Relations of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Turkey, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Directorate of Religious Affairs, the Coordination Office of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) program, representatives of the largest Turkish media and NGOs.

As a reminder, within the framework of the working visit to Turkey of the Kazakh delegation headed by Aida Balayeva and following the results of business meetings in April 2021 with the head of the General Directorate of Public Relations of the Administration of the President of Turkey Fahrettin Altun, Minister of Youth and Sports Mehmet Kasapoglu and the Chairman of the Directorate On Religious Affairs, Ali Erbash reached an agreement on holding joint strategic sessions with the government agencies of the Republic of Turkey in the supervised areas of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the further development of mutually beneficial cooperation.