Source reports Erdogan, Putin to hold talks on sidelines of BRICS summit in Johannesburg

World July 14, 2018, 21:24

The summit is due to be held in the end of July

ANKARA, July 14. /TASS/. Turkish and Russian Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin had first phone talks on Saturday after Erdogan’s win in the presidential election on June 24, a source with the Turkish presidential office told reporters, with a TASS correspondent among them.

"President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin had talked by phone," he said. "The leaders agreed to hold a one-on-one meeting in Johannesburg at the end of the month within the framework of the BRICS summit.".

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