Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan held a key diplomatic meeting on Saturday with Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq\u2019s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum 2026 in southern T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n
The talks took place at the hotel where Erdo\u011fan is staying, with senior Turkish officials including Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar also in attendance. The meeting underscores Ankara\u2019s ongoing engagement with regional stakeholders as part of T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s active diplomatic push.<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan\u2019s diplomatic marathon at Antalya forum<\/p>\n
The Turkish president has been holding a series of bilateral meetings throughout the forum. On the second day of the event, he hosted a working breakfast with the three members of Bosnia-Herzegovina\u2019s tripartite presidency \u2014 Zeljka Cvijanovic, Denis Becirovic and Zeljko Komsic. He also met separately with Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar, Comoros President Azali Assoumani, Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, and Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye.<\/p>\n
Libyan prime minister among Erdo\u011fan\u2019s guests<\/p>\n
In addition to these leaders, Erdo\u011fan held talks with Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh. The Antalya Diplomacy Forum, running through Sunday, has brought together world leaders and senior government officials from around the globe. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cMapping Tomorrow, Managing Uncertainties,\u201d reflecting growing global challenges.<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s growing role as diplomatic hub<\/p>\n
The forum is held under the auspices of President Erdo\u011fan and hosted by the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Anadolu Agency serves as the forum\u2019s global communications partner. The event, taking place in the Mediterranean city of Antalya, has become a major fixture on the international diplomatic calendar, reinforcing T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s position as a key mediator and dialogue platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan held a key diplomatic meeting on Saturday with Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16467],"tags":[20409,21978,947,7241,21977,7098,8793,5596],"class_list":["post-32729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-antalya","tag-barzani","tag-diplomacy","tag-erdogan","tag-iraqs-kurdish-regional-government-krg","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkiye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116430294561100304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}