Vice President Fuat Oktay and Deputy Governor of Ankara Abdullah Dölek, and other officials bade farewell to President Erdoğan at Esenboğa Airport.
Erdoğan is accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Dönmez, Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Vahit Kirişci, Minister of Trade Mehmet Muş, Director of the National Intelligence Service Hakan Fidan, Presidency’s Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın, President of Defense Industry Agency İsmail Demir, AK Party Deputy Chairman and Spokesperson Ömer Çelik and General Manager of Baykar Technology Company Haluk Bayraktar.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres are expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv.
“At the meeting, three leaders will discuss efforts aimed at ending the war between Ukraine and Russia through diplomatic channels and maintaining Ukrainian grain exports to world markets,” the Turkish presidency said. (ILKHA)