Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed is expected to visit Turkey next week for the first time in 10 years, the Daily Sabah reported.
According to the Turkish newspaper, the visit is expected to take place on Nov. 24 and will be a symbolic turning point after the UAE and Turkey agreed to improve relations last summer.
Turkish officials described Mohammed bin Zayed’s visit as the “beginning of a new era” following years of hostility.
The Daily Sabah reported that earlier this year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a phone call with Mohammed bin Zayed in which the two discussed relations between Turkey and the Gulf state.
The two leaders discussed regional and bilateral relations and issues, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency. The statement did not say when the conversation took place.
The UAE’s state-run news agency said the leaders “reviewed the prospects of reinforcing the relations between the two nations in a way that serves their common interests and their two peoples.”
Erdogan previously said that the countries, which have been at odds in several issues, have made progress in bilateral relations in recent months.
“Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s phone call with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed was very positive and friendly,” UAE presidential diplomatic adviser Anwar Gargash said on Twitter.
He said the contact between the two leaders was meant to open “a new phase” in relations as “the UAE seeks to build bridges, maximize commonalities and work together with friends and brothers to ensure future decades of regional stability and prosperity for all peoples and countries of the region.”
According to the Daily Sabah, the call came two weeks after Erdogan hosted a top UAE security official and discussed investment in Turkey.
It added that the UAE national security advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s trip was the highest-level public visit by an Emirati official to Turkey in years.
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