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Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday on the sidelines of an extraordinary NATO leaders' summit in Brussels.

The closed-door meeting at the NATO headquarters lasted 45 minutes.

Also joining the meeting were Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Justice and Development (AK) Party spokesperson Omer Celik, head of the Turkish delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Osman Askin Bak, Communications Directorate head Fahrettin Altun, presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin, and Turkiye's NATO Ambassador Basat Ozturk.​​​