Ankara set to boost ties with Riyadh after top officials meet
A day after visiting Saudi Arabia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his government is striving to boost ties with Riyadh.
In a Twitter post on Friday, Erdogan said both Turkey and Saudi Arabia were interested in developing cooperation in different political, military, and economic domains, and his visit to the country would pave the way for the start of a new era in Ankara-Riyadh relations.
“As two brotherly countries with historical, cultural and human ties, we are striving to increase all kinds of political, military and economic relations between us and to start a new era,” Erdogan said.
The Turkish president stressed that the two countries had common interests in different fields such as health, energy, food security, agricultural technologies, the defense industry, and finance.
“I believe we will take our relations to a level beyond what they were previously,” Erdogan added.
Saudi King Salman received Erdogan on Thursday evening in an official ceremony in the city of Jeddah. The two officials held a closed-door meeting, while Erdogan also met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The Turkish president’s visit to Riyadh was the first in years and followed tensions between the two sides over the 2018 murder of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Ankara said Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the murder and the killing should be investigated in Turkey.
Erdogan’s visit marks the culmination of a drive to drop a trial over Khashoggi’s murder.
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