Earlier in the week, Turkey’s former CHP mayor of Izmir and 137 municipal staff were detained in connection with investigations into tender-rigging and fraud.

“Beyond the formal label, these relations embody profound meaning — our shared history as part of a single state,” she said.

"The fact that the Alican border gate will bear the name of Talaat Pasha is not a mere change of signage," said the nationalist leader.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said recent arrests of Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg were lawful and tied to investigations into serious past crimes.

Azerbaijani media said Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif will also attend the event.