Ns News Online Desk: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev in capital Tashkent for official talks on Monday.
The talks lasted for two hours. No further details about the meeting was provided.
Erdogan, who is in the country on a three-day official visit, later attended a lunch organized by Mirziyoyev in his honor.
He is also due to address the Uzbek parliament and attend the Turkey-Uzbekistan Business Forum along with Mirziyoyev.On Tuesday, the Turkish president will visit the historic city of Bukhara, where he plans to establish two Islamic institutes.
The president is accompanied by a large delegation, including his wife Emine Erdoğan, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci, intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Çavuşoğlu, Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül, Science, Industry, and Technology Minister Faruk Ozlu, Labor and Social Security Minister Julide Sarieroglu, Customs and Trade Minister Bulent Tufenkci, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalın and Ali Erbaş, Directorate of Religious Affairs.