Turkey tries to build bridges with the Gulf
Issue 992
- 08 May 2015
| 5 minute read
So far in 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already made several trips to the Gulf. The first was to Riyadh in January, when he took time out from a trip around the Horn of Africa to attend King Abdullah’s funeral. He was back in the kingdom in early March for a meeting with King Salman. Then, in early April, he went to Tehran for talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and, at the end of the month, visited Kuwait City to meet Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al- Sabah and other senior figures.
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