Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists on social media circulated a video clip from a report broadcast by the state-run Saudi Al-Ekhbariya channel, in which they pointed out that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the kingdom was “in fulfillment of his desire.”
#Erdogan Effendi is the one who asked to visit the kingdom, and he was not invited, as mentioned. https://t.co/mgM0ylEoZe
The presenter of the program said in the Al-Ikhbariya report: “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Jeddah following fulfilling his desire to visit, where the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman will receive the leaders of the Islamic world in the last 10 days of Ramadan, so that the priority of time and place will meet.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the Kingdom came in fulfillment of his desire https://t.co/SKSdZd60SS
The Turkish president had said in a tweet following his arrival in Saudi Arabia: “We visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the invitation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.. As two brotherly countries with historical, cultural and human relations, we are making unremitting efforts to strengthen all kinds of political, military and economic relations, and to start a new era between us. “.
We visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the invitation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. As two brotherly countries with historical, cultural and human relations, we are making unremitting efforts to strengthen all kinds of political, military and economic relations, and to start a new era between us. https://t.co/aF6s4R9Bkv
It is noteworthy that Erdogan’s last visit to Saudi Arabia was regarding 5 years ago, in June 2017, before relations became tense amid the crisis of boycotting Qatar, and the tension was exacerbated by the killing of Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.
