'I am eager to visit Shusha,' Bursa mayor says

"I am eager to visit Shusha and hope it will happen next year as part of TURKSOY," Alinur Aktas, the mayor of the Turkish city of Bursa, told Report.

"Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan Anar Karimov is here with us today. During the march, we could talk, and we discussed the conduction of a TURKSOY session in Shusha. Bursa now has experience hosting such events, and we are ready to share it with Azerbaijan. We plan to send a delegation to Azerbaijan during the year for it to share our experience," Aktas said.

Today, the opening ceremony of the coordinating center of the cultural capital of the Turkic world in 2022 took place in Bursa.

The city of Shusha will be declared the cultural capital of the Turkic world in 2023.