The recent visit of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, National Leader of the Turkmen People and Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty, to Azerbaijan on July 16–17 may not have produced any signed agreements, but it carried a weight of strategic symbolism that cannot be overlooked. In many ways, this was a visit less about documents and more about direction — and that direction, unmistakably, points toward closer alignment between Ashgabat and Baku.
