Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he had tested positive for Covid-19, without having severe symptoms.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he had tested positive for Covid-19, without having severe symptoms. “After experiencing mild symptoms, my wife and I tested positive for Covid-19. We luckily have a mild infection, which we learned was due to the Omicron variant,” he said. stated on Twitter. The Turkish president had just traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, where he had met his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
His visit to Saudi Arabia postponed?
He was due to travel to Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks, for the first time since the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018. “He is expecting me in February. He promised me. visit to Saudi Arabia in February,” the Turkish head of state said of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MBS said, in response to a question about trade relations between Ankara and Riyadh.
This visit should have been the first made by the Turkish president since the assassination in 2018 of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a group of several people from Riyadh. Critic of Saudi power after being close to it, Jamal Khashoggi, resident in the United States, was a columnist for the Washington Post. Mr. Erdogan then accused the “Saudi government at the highest level” of having ordered the murder, excluding the king.
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