Erdogan to visit Saudi Arabia for Syria talks

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will travel to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, when he is expected to discuss recent developments in Syria Today`s Zaman reported

Erdo?an's office said the prime minister, who is currently on an official visit to China, will pay an official visit to Saudi Arabia between April 12 and 14. The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Turkey will meet to discuss Syria on Friday, a Saudi official told Reuters on Tuesday, in a mark of accelerating diplomacy on a crisis in which both regional powers have condemned President Bashar al-Assad.

"The Syrian issue is top of the agenda," the official told Reuters in confirming that Erdo?an would hold talks with King Abdullah in Riyadh at the end of the week. A Turkish newspaper said Erdo?an would fly there directly on Thursday on his way home from an official visit to China.


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