Turkish President in D-8 gathering

Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer arrives in Cairo next Saturday in the first official visit to Egypt to take part in the D-8 Summit to open Sunday, to be headed by President Hosni Mubarak Turkish ambassador in Cairo Aykut Cetirge said that Sezer would hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak on the side lines D-8 Summit.

The meeting will be the first of its kind between the two heads of state and will probe the peace process in the Middle East after the recent Israeli elections. Moreover, Sezer will brief Mubarak on the developments in Turkey-Cyprus issue.

Talks will deal as well with a number of regional and international issues of mutual interest in addition to ways of porting bilateral relations between the two countries in political, economic, social and cultural fields.