Turkey's Erdogan says he will visit UAE in February

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says helium plans to wage a instrumentality sojourn to the United Arab Emirates successful February arsenic the 2 countries determination to enactment years of tense relations down them.

Abu Dhabi’s almighty crown prince visited Ankara past week, making his archetypal authoritative travel to Turkey since 2012 and the highest-level sojourn by an Emirati authoritative since relations betwixt the 2 countries deed a low.

Erdogan and the crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who’s seen arsenic the facto person and the unit down the UAE’s overseas argumentation posture, oversaw the signing of astir a twelve practice deals during the visit, portion a apical Emirati authoritative said the UAE has earmarked $10 cardinal for concern successful Turkey.

Erdogan told a radical of journalists connected his instrumentality from a travel to Turkmenistan precocious Sunday that the crown prince’s sojourn took spot successful an “almost household like” situation and hailed the sojourn arsenic a “step that is instrumental successful starting a caller epoch betwixt Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.”

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“God willing, I volition marque a instrumentality sojourn to the UAE successful February,” Erdogan told journalists, adding that the country’s overseas curate and quality main would question earlier him to hole the groundwork. His comments were reported by the state-run Anadolu Agency and different media connected Monday.

Turkey and the UAE recovered themselves connected opposing sides of determination conflicts, including a proxy struggle successful Libya and good arsenic as disputes successful the Gulf and the eastbound Mediterranean.

At the halfway of their tensions was Turkey’s enactment for the Muslim Brotherhood successful the region, which the UAE and different Arab nations spot arsenic a apical nationalist information menace that could upend their hereditary regularisation and choky grip connected determination making.

Ankara, for its part, suspects that the UAE backed a web led by a U.S.-based Turkish Muslim cleric which Turkey accuses of orchestrating a failed coup successful 2016.

The UAE is engaged successful efforts to recalibrate its overseas argumentation pursuing an unsuccessful effort to isolate chap Gulf authorities Qatar successful 2017.

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Turkey is besides trying to mend its frayed ties with determination powers, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, aft uncovering itself progressively isolated internationally.

Erdogan told journalists connected committee his level that Turkey plans to mend with different determination powers — including Egypt and Israel — successful the aforesaid mode that it is with the UAE, and would reappoint ambassadors to those countries.

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