Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has met with U.S. President Barack Obama to hold a bilateral discussion ahead of the G-20 Summit starting Nov. 15 at the Belek resort of Antalya, the Hurriyet Daly News reports.
The meeting started at Regnum Hotel at 10:40 a.m., just a few hours after Obama’s Air Force One landed at Antalya Airport at 7 a.m.
The leaders proceeded to the meeting, which is expected to last for an hour and twenty minutes, after a brief photo shoot.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will chair the summit with the participation of U.S., Chinese, Russian, Saudi, U.K. and EU leaders, among others, and will try to leave his own mark, especially on the resolution of regional issues, Syrian unrest and its by-products, global extremist terrorism and migration issues.