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For the first time since 2008, the leaders of Turkey and Israel will meet at the UN

Greater Middle East (bbabo.net), - Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will meet with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. It is reported by The Times of Israel on September 17.

The upcoming meeting with the Israeli prime minister will be the first since Erdogan met with former Israeli leader Ehud Olmert in 2008.

Israeli media reports that Lapid will also speak with newly minted British Prime Minister Liz Truss, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and UN Secretary General António Guterres.

Earlier, Turkey and Israel announced the normalization of their relations. It is worth noting that Ankara and Tel Aviv are long-standing close partners in the region, closely interacting in the area of ​​trade and security. Cooperation with Turkey is one of the key elements of Israel's traditional "peripheral strategy" in the Middle East.

For the first time since 2008, the leaders of Turkey and Israel will meet at the UN