Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met Friday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
The two leaders' closed-door meeting took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. No further information on the meeting was released.
Erdoğan will attend the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO as a special guest, with Türkiye taking part at the presidential level for the first time since Ankara obtained SCO dialogue partner status in 2012.
Later, he is expected to address the second session of the summit and hold bilateral meetings with leaders including his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Established in 2001, the eight-member organization aims to strengthen friendly, good neighborly relations and mutual trust among member states.
