Meeting on cooperation between Arab states and Turkey

A meeting was held in Istanbul at the invitation of Turkish intellectuals. The meeting was attended by several Arab ambassadors accredited to Turkey and chief editors of several main Turkish dailies and several academics.

The former Turkish foreign minister Elter Turkman, who attended the meeting, underlined the importance of the Turkish relations with the Arab states. He said that this meeting aims at exchanging views on what the Arab and Turkish sides think of and is conducive to forming a mechanism for dialogue.

For his part, the Syrian ambassador to Turkey Muhammad Saeed al-Bunni stressed that both Turkey and Syria have the will to develop relations between the two sides in various fields. He indicated that bilateral relations will avail Turkey to maintain openness on the countries of the Middle East and therefore this will constitute a nucleus for a pan- Arabic- Turkish cooperation.

The Turkish writer and journalist Aouni Ozghoril explained that Turkey has to make use of its deeply rooted historical ties with the Arabs and to build its stand with the Arab states.

The said meeting was attended by the ambassadors of Oman, Libya, Palestinian and Syria.