2023-12-18 15:21:16
He arrived an hour late Recep Tayyip Erdogan To Budapest. The Turkish presidential delegation at the airport Péter Szijjártó was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The Turkish president came to Budapest for a meeting of the Hungarian-Turkish High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council, but according to Turkish press reports, he will also hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on economic issues, and Sweden’s NATO accession may also be discussed.
Erdogan first visited Heroes’ Square, where a military parade and horses awaited him: the president Katalin Novák the president of the republic was waiting for him, and then the honor team played the Hungarian national anthem for him. Erdogan was then received by several Hungarian government representatives: among them János Csák, János Boka, Balázs Orbán, Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky and Sándor Pinter. The Turkish president then greeted the soldiers in Hungarian, then crowned the World War I Heroes’ Memorial Stone with a Turkish wreath.
Zoltán Máthé / MTI President Katalin Novák welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Sándor Palace.
The ceremony lasted only twenty minutes, but the most important streets leading to Hősök tere were closed for quite a long time, Andrássy utca to Bajza utca, and Dózsa György utca in both directions to Podmaninczky utca and Városmajor tree line.
After the wreath-laying and the meeting with the Hungarian government members, Erdogan jumped into a car, which would have been nothing interesting, but Viktor Orbán himself was sitting at the wheel. Telex also published a picture of the scene. The car in which the heads of state are sitting is the vehicle of the Turkish national electric car manufacturer TOGG. The model driven by Orbán was put on the market in Turkey in March, previously presented personally by Erdogan.
Orbán announced in a Facebook post that Erdogan will receive a horse as a gift from the Hungarian state. The Turkish president became richer with the Grand Master, the nonius stallion of the Mezőhegyes Stud Farm.
A gift from a horse nation to a horse nation
Orbán wrote.
Erdogan last visited Hungary on August 20.
(Telex / hvg.hu)
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