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Turkey's communications director on March 2 met Azerbaijan's Culture Minister Anar Kerimov.

Fahrettin Altun received an Azerbaijani delegation in the capital Ankara, according to an official statement from the Turkish Presidential Communications Directorate.

The two sides discussed ways to improve collaboration in communication, media, culture, and cinema, the statement said.

On Thursday, a few hours before the leaders of European Union member-states were to discuss the bloc's relations with Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a military parade in Baku, celebrating Azerbaijan's triumph over Armenian forces (with Turkish assistance).

As the world's Muslim leaders admitted at last week's Islamic summit, the past 1,400 tumultuous years of sectarian fighting did not bring peace and happiness to Muslim lands. But, judging from the happy smiles and big speeches at the summit, the next 1,400 tumultuous years may be better. 

Hopefully, the third 1,400 years of tumultuous future may finally bring some peace.

In 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an suggested that a more suitable PR slogan for Turkey should be "Discover the Power," instead of "Discover the Potential," which was recommended by the country's union of exporters. So, discover the power - in a few lines of facts.

The assessment in the title line does not belong to this columnist, but has been cherished in this column since a Turkey specialist realistically put it in a Reuters analysis a couple of years earlier.