ALGIERS, Algeria
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived Wednesday in Algeria’s capital Algiers for an official visit.
President Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan were greeted by Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal.
Turkey’s president commemorated the martyrs who fought for Algeria’s independence against the French in a speech at the country’s capital. He honored the Algerian martyrs with a moment of silence and laid a wreath on their monument.
Erdogan is scheduled to meet with his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and to speak to business representatives at the Turkey-Algeria Business Forum along with Prime Minister Sellal.
It was also announced Wednesday that Turkey and Algeria will renew their liquefied natural gas deal, which will expire by the end of 2014.
Among those who came to Algeria with President Erdogan are Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock Mehdi Ekekr, National Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, as well as Turkish parliament members, a delegation of businessmen and members of the press.
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