President Erdoğan in Russia

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in the Russian city of Sochi to pay a visit at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation.

Upon his arrival at Sochi International Airport, President Erdoğan was welcomed by Vice Governor of Krasnodar Alexander Ruppel, Mayor of Sochi Aleksey Kopaigorodsky, Head of the State Protocol Department at Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Igor Bogdashev, Turkey’s Ambassador to Moscow Mehmet Samsar, Turkey’s Consul General in Novorossiysk Fırat Bayar and officials from the Embassy and the Consulate.