Turkey's Erdogan sits down with Russia's Putin for talks
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ST. PETERSBURG-- On his first foreign visit after Turkey's failed coup, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for inviting him for talks Tuesday aimed at repairing ties shattered by Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border last year.
Opening the talks, Putin said he was "glad" to be seeing Erdogan again and praised his visit as Turkey's commitment to repair the soured ties.
"Your visit means that all of us want the dialogue to be resumed," Putin said.
Erdogan, in his opening remarks, thanked Putin twice for inviting him to Russia and said the cooperation between the two countries should benefit the entire region.
