State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin Meets with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. The meeting was held on Saturday, August 18, after the completion of the sixth general meeting of the Justice and Development Party. Earlier today, the chairman of the lower chamber of the Russian parliament met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mavlut Cavusoglu and Turkish Parliament Speaker Binali Yildirim.

An agreement was reached to establish a high-level parliamentary commission between the State Duma and the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The issue of the planned holding of the Second International Conference on Terrorism and Interregional Cooperation by the end of this year in Tehran. In addition, the delegation of the State Duma laid flowers at the site of an air strike on the building of the Turkish parliament during the attempted coup d'etat on July 15, 2016. Working visit of Vyacheslav Volodin to the Republic of Turkey is August 17-18.