Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Moscow to hold talks with President, Vladimir Putin in a bid to “reset” ties with Russia.
Before leaving Turkey, Mr Erdogan referred to president Putin as his “friend” and said he wanted to open a new page in relations with Russia.
“This visit strikes me as a new milepost in our bilateral relations, starting again from a clean slate,” Erdogan told Reuters.
“A new page will be opened in Russo-Tukish ties. This new page will include military, economic and cultural cooperation.”
Relations between the two countries plunged into crisis last year when turkey shot down a Russian military jet on the Syrian border.
It is Mr Erdogan’s first foreign visit since an attempted coup was aborted in his country last month.
The visit comes as turkey’s ties with the west have cooled over criticism of a crackdown on alleged coup-plotters.
