ANKARA - Justice and Development Party (AK Party) leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan will start on Tuesday his five-day tour covering Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
Erdogan will go first to Azerbaijan and meet with Azerbaijani President Haydar Aliyev there. On Jan. 8, Wednesday he will meet with Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasizade. The same day he will proceed to Turkmenistan and he will be received by Turkmen President Saparmurat Turkmenbasi.
Erdogan will proceed to Kazakhstan on January 10 and he will meet with Kazakh President Nur Sultan Nazarbayev. Erdogan will return to Turkey on Jan. 11.
Erdogan will go to Beijing, China on Jan. 13, Monday.
The details of his visit to China are not known yet. Erdogan will be accompanied by ministers, deputies, businessmen, representatives of NGOs and journalists during his visits.