Newly appointed Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin intends to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan, September 25.

Sahin told the journalists that Turkey always was and will be next to Azerbaijan and will in no way hurt its Azerbaijani brothers, Turkish Hurriyet daily reports. According to Turkish mass media, the focal point of his visit is Armenian-Turkish relations’ normalization.

Earlier Mehmet Ali Sahin expressed hope that Karabakh conflict will be settled in the near future. “Azerbaijan and Turkey are ‘one nation, but two states’. Turkey will never infringe upon Azerbaijan’s interests. We will always back Azerbaijan,” he said.