ANKARA
The meeting lasted for nearly two hours.
The Australian prime minister is expected to depart from Turkey in the evening following her talks in the capital.
Gillard arrived in Turkey's northwestern province of Canakkale on Tuesday for ceremonies to commemorate Australian soldiers who fell during the 1915 Canakkale Campaign of the First World War.
Julia Gillard participated in a ceremony at dawn on Wednesday at the Gelibolu Peninsula where ANZAC first set foot 97 years ago with thousands of Australians and New Zealanders to pay their respects to their ancestors who lost their lives in the battlefields of Canakkale.
