By Ferdi Turkten

ANKARA

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to pay an official visit to Hungary on Oct. 8-9, his office said in a statement on Saturday.

Erdogan will meet his counterpart Janos Ader and Hungarian Parliament speaker Laszlo Kover and Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

According to the statement, political, economic and security ties are to be discussed as well as mutual regional and international issues including Turkey-EU relations, irregular migration and terrorism.

Erdogan will also attend a business forum and the opening ceremony of the Ottoman-period Gul Baba Tomb with Orban in Budapest. He will visit a World War I cemetery at Galicia.