Turkey’s Erdoğan arrives in US for UN session

Turkey’s President Erdoğan has arrived in New York to attend the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.

Sunday September 22 2024 09:42 pm

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sept. 21 arrived in New York to attend the 79th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.

Erdoğan was accompanied by his wife Emine Erdoğan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat, National Intelligence Organization (MIT) head İbrahim Kalın, Presidential Communications Directorate head Fahrettin Altun, and other officials.

Erdoğan also visited the Turkish House skyscraper where the Turkish Consulate General is located.

Before his visit to the United States, Erdoğan repeated Turkey’s willingness and readiness to meet Syria’s Bashar el-Assad to “normalize relations.”