Turkey’s Erdogan meets Iran’s Rouhani and Venezuela’s Maduro
By Reuters
10 September 2017 |
2:50 pm
Turkish President Tayyip Erodgan met the leaders of Iran, Venezuela and Bangladesh in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit where the plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar topped the agenda.
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