Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of a D-8 Summit on Thursday (December 19), Reuters reports.
Erdogan discussed the developments in Syria as well as bilateral relations with all three countries' leaders, the Turkish presidency said. He also discussed with Sisi increasing cooperation between Turkey and Egypt to help Gaza, it said.
Egypt is hosting the summit of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, which also includes Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Turkey and Pakistan.
The D-8 was established in 1997 to improve cooperation between countries stretching from Southeast Asia to Africa.
