Turkish, Uzbek presidents meet in Astana

ANKARA

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Thursday met on the sidelines of a regional summit in Kazakhstan.

Erdogan and Mirziyoyev held a closed-door meeting after the general debate of the sixth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Astana.

Erdogan is also expected to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss recent developments and the Ukraine war, which started in February.