The 15th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic States (TURKPA) was held on Tuesday in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital. It was hosted by Kyrgyz parliament speaker Marlen Mamataliev at the presidential Yrys Ordo congress center.
Attendees included the parliament speakers of Kazakhstan, Aibek Dadebay; Azerbaijan, Sahiba Gafarova; Türkiye, Numan Kurtulmuş; and Uzbekistan, Tanzila Narbayeva, as well as Turkish Cypriot parliament speaker Ziya Öztürkler as an observer and TURKPA Secretary General Ramil Hasan. Mamataliev took over the rotating presidency from Dadebay.

Mamataliev said Kyrgyzstan considers digital transformation a national development priority and that its parliament has switched to electronic work, ending paper documents, calling for joint work on AI regulation, cybersecurity and digitalizing the legislative process. Gafarova said the assembly brings together representatives of peoples who share culture, history, language and values under one roof.