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Turkish, Chinese presidents hold talks in Uzbekistan on SCO sidelines

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to address the second session of the ongoing SCO summit and hold bilateral meetings with leaders such as Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Erdogan and China's Xi Jinping have held a closed-door meeting, with no details of their discussions immediately available.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have held a meeting in Uzbekistan's Samarkand.

Their closed-door meeting on Friday took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.

No further information on the meeting was immediately released.

Erdogan will later 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 such as Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The landmark Ankara-brokered grain export deal signed this July by the UN, Türkiye, Russia and Ukraine is expected to be discussed during the talks between Erdogan and Putin.

President @RTErdogan, who is in Samarkand to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, participated in the tree-planting ceremony held at the Congress Center. pic.twitter.com/f0zxDfdTiz
— Republic of Türkiye Directorate of Communications (@Communications) September 15, 2022

SCO summit

On Thursday, President Erdogan held talks with leaders attending the SCO summit. Erdogan visited the newly built areas of the city with other summit participants.

He spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon, Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko and other leaders.

Before the city tour, Erdogan attended a sapling planting ceremony.

Established in 2001, the eight-member organisation aims to strengthen friendly, good neighbourly relations and mutual trust among member states.