Heydar Aliyev – National leader of Azerbaijani people

Ilham Aliyev – President of Azerbaijan

Turgut Ozal – ex-president of Turkish Republic

Suleyman Damiral- ex-president of Turkish Republic

Victor Sadovnichiy – rector of MSU

Abdullah Gul – president of Turkish Republic

Zbigniew Brzezinski – ex-US secretary

Ihsan Dogramaci – Well-known Turkish scientist

Vaira Vike-Freyberga – ex-president of Latvia

George Robertson – ex-secretary general of NATO

Valdas Adamkus – ex-president of Lithuania

Islam Karimov – president of Uzbekistan

Eduard Shevardnadze – ex-president of Georgia

Traian Basescu – president of Romania

Asgar Akayev – ex-president of Kyrgyzstan

Saparmurad Niyazov – ex-president of Turkmenistan

Petru Lucinschi – ex-president of Moldova

Boutros Boutros-Ghali – ex-secretary general of UN

Lutfizade – Well-known Azerbaijanian scientist

Olzhas Suleimenov – Well-known Kazakh poet

Koichiro Matsuura – ex-director-general of UNESCO

Volodymyr Lytvyn – speaker of Ukrainian Parliament

Tansu Chiller – ex-prime minister of Turkish Republic

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel – ex-speaker of Iranian parliament

Mesut Yilmaz – ex-prime minister of Turkish Republic

Federico Mayor Zaragoza – ex-director-general of UNESCO

Irene Melikoff – Well-known French Turcologist

Aghayi Javad Heyyat – Well-known Iranian scientist of Azerbaijani studies

Halil Cin – Well-known Turkish scholar

Fikret Turkmen – professor of Izmir University