Turkish president meets with UK premier at NATO leaders' summit

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Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as part of his bilateral talks at the extraordinary NATO leaders' summit in Brussels.

The closed-door meeting at the NATO headquarters lasted 40 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 Director Fahrettin Altun, presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin, and Turkiye's NATO Ambassador Basat Ozturk.​​​

Earlier, Erdogan also held separate meetings with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, and Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas.