President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kazakhstan on July 3-4. It is stated that Syria will be one of the important agenda items during the meeting.
Heads of state and government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), of which Turkey is a dialogue partner, will meet in Kazakhstan, the current president of the SCO, on July 3-4.
Erdoğan and Putin are also expected to hold a bilateral meeting as part of the summit.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was received by Putin on June 10 in Moscow, where he went for the BRICS+ meeting after his visit to China, and it was during this meeting that Putin first announced that the leaders would meet during Erdoğan’s visit to Astana.
Answering journalists’ questions on Habertürk channel last week, Fidan said that there is a possibility that Erdoğan will meet with Putin in Kazakhstan in the coming days and listed Syria, Ukraine, energy issues on a bilateral basis, trade volume and the situation of Turkish companies in Russia as important topics in relations with Russia at the moment.
Erdoğan attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, also known as the Shanghai Five, for the first time on September 15-16, 2022.
