RIYADH – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan held important phone call withSaudi King Salman.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has received a telephonic call for an Eidgreeting from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi media reportedon Wednesday.
According to Arab News, the Saudi king thanked the Turkish president forthe call and greeted him on the occasion.
The phone call comes days after Saudi Arabia hosted the Organisation ofIslamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in the holy city of Makkah, but with thenotable absence of the Turkish president from the summit.
Turkey, a regional heavyweight, was instead represented by its ForeignMinister Mevlut Cavusoglu at the meeting of the 57-member bloc of Islamiccountries.
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Erdogan’s visit would have been his first to the kingdom since the brutalmurder last October of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate inIstanbul.
The OIC meeting was the third and final summit hosted by Saudi Arabia lastweek, aimed at galvanising support among Arab and Islamic nations againstarchrival Iran, which has close ties with Turkey.
