NEW DELHI – Indian PM Narendra Modi decides to cancel official visit toTurkey after strong snubs over Occupied Kashmir from President TayyipErdogan.
Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has decided to cancel his two-dayofficial visit to Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoganopenly raised occupied Kashmir issue at United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) and backed Pakistan at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meetin Paris.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to depart on a two-dayofficial visit to Ankara at the end of this month (October) following visitto Saudi Arabia, where he is going on October 27-28 to attend a megainvestment summit.
Modi had last visited Turkey during the G20 in Antalya in 2015. He had heldbilateral talks with president Erdogan in Osaka, on the sidelines of theG20 in June this year. The Turkish leader had paid a two-day visit to Indiain July 2018.
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However, Erdogan’s strong backing of Pakistan on Kashmir and highlightingwidespread human rights violations during his speech at the UN GeneralAssembly last month has not gone down well with India.
