Iranian president arrives in Turkey for nuclear talks

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew into Turkey on Thursday for two days of talks on bilateral ties and Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.

Ahmadinejad is scheduled to hold talks with President Abdullah Gul later Thursday and with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday on his first ever bilateral visit to a NATO-member country.

He will also address a businessmen's meeting Friday before leaving.

The talks are expected to focus on ways to develop closer cooperation between the two neighbours as well as the mounting tension over Iran's nuclear drive which the West suspects is a cover for secretly developing an atomic bomb.

Iran is refusing to halt its uranium enrichment activities even though it is facing a fresh round...

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