Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, will go to Uzbekistan on Thursday for a two-day trip to attend a summit and meet with international leaders.
Erdogan will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s annual Heads of State Council conference on Friday in Samarkand, located in the region’s southeast.
The Turkish president will speak during the summit’s second session and participate in a family portrait. The group, which has eight members, was founded in 2001 to foster trust and goodwill among its member governments. In 2012, Türkiye was accepted as one of six “conversation partners.”
Erdogan will meet individually with summit participants such as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the summit’s margins. The Turkish president will speak during the summit’s second session and participate in a family portrait.
Erdogan will meet individually with summit participants such as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the summit’s margins.
The UN, Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine grain export agreement will be discussed during the meetings between Erdogan and Putin. Erdogan stated that Turkey wants to begin receiving grain imports from Russia, just as Ukraine does from its ports, as part of the historic agreement.
