Tokayev's strange proposal at the meeting of Turkish heads of state in Turkey The holding of the 13th meeting of Turkish heads of state in Ankara was accompanied by many side effects. The most important aspect of this meeting was the absence of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who accused Turkey of interfering in his country's internal affairs and refused to travel to Ankara due to criticism of the hijab ban. But the second margin was related to the surprising proposal of the President of Kazakhstan, Kassem Jomart Tokayev. In his speech at the Ankara meeting, Tokayev suggested that Russia would also join the Organization of Turkish Governments as a new member and that this process would begin with the members of the observer position and that Russia would also be present in this group as an observer, like Turkmenistan.