President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who is in Ankara for the 13th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), at the Presidential Complex.
President Erdoğan welcomed Mirziyoyev at the entrance to the Presidential Complex. The two leaders posed for photographs and shook hands in front of the Türkiye and Uzbekistan flags before holding a tête-à-tête meeting.

Summit to be held in Ankara tomorrow
The 13th Summit of the OTS will be held in Ankara tomorrow under the theme “Turkic Century: Unity in Language, Ideas and Work,” hosted by President Erdoğan. Before the summit, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev also paid an official visit to Ankara.
Relations between Türkiye and Uzbekistan were elevated to the level of a comprehensive strategic partnership through a joint declaration signed in 2022.