Meeting between Turkish, Ukrainian presidents ends

ISTANBUL

Turkey’s president held extensive discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart in Istanbul on Saturday.

A meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Zelensky at the Huber Mansion started at 3:45 p.m. local time (1245GMT) and lasted for three hours.

The meeting was closed to the media.

Zelensky is in Turkey for the 9th meeting of the Turkey-Ukraine High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council.