ATATURK IS 125 YEARS OLD Prof. Nizami Caferov making his speech in Ataturk Cultural Center, Azerbaijan. ATATURK TURNS 125 The Marmara Group Foundation organized a meeting titled “Living Ataturk” in Ataturk Cultural Center in Baku The Marmara Group Foundation paid a visit to the sister country, Azerbaijan, with a comittee of 45 people including academics, politicians and journalists in last October. The Marmara Group Foundation made, so to say, a “friendship visit” to Baku with a committee of academics, bureaucrats, technocrats, journalists, politicians including MPs Gulden Aksit, Abdulaziz Yazar and Dursun Akdemir headed by the Foundation’s President Akkan Suver. Immediately after the landing on the Baku Airport, the Committee paid a visit to the tomb of the late President Haydar Aliyev. Afterwards, the Committee arrived in the Ataturk Cultural Center, the sole Ataturk center throughout the Turkic world. Welcomed by the President of the Center, Prof. Nizami Caferov, the Committee joined in the meeting titled “Ataturk is 125 Years Old” in the Center. The ret. General Hursit Tolon delivered a sentimental speech in the Center. In his speech on behalf of the Marmara Group Foundation, Tolon said: “As a person having served 50 years in the Turkish military and having grown on the way of Ataturk, I feel the pride of addressing you in this spectacular center. The light arising from this meaningful center will carry our splendid and honorable name, Turk, to the coming generations. Starting with President Ilham Aliyev, I herein would like to congratulate those who have contributed to the construction of this unique center that will inspire the young people who will endeavor to understand Ataturk and his ideas, that will take these people to shiny and better days.” The closure speech of the meeting was delivered by Prof. Nizami Caferov affter the Azerbaijani academics, Dr. Akkan Suver, Engin Koklucinar and Irfan Ulku had addressed the listeners.