Erdogan from Turkiye in Pakistan in Istanbul meets weeks after India opposes Politics News

President Erdogan is holding talks with Prime Minister Sharif aimed at “increasing solidarity in education, exchanging intelligence and technological support.”

Tayyip Erdogan President Tayyip Erdogan held talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif in Istanbul, weeks after a military conflict between Islamabad and New Delhi.

Erdogan’s office said on Sunday that the two countries will strive to enhance cooperation, especially in defense, energy and transportation.

A Turkish president’s office said that Erdogan told Sharif that it was in the interest of Türkiye and Pakistan to increase solidarity in education, intelligence and technological support in combating “terrorism”.

The meeting in the Turkish commercial capital comes at a time when Ankara faces a violent reaction from India because of its alleged supplies of weapons to Islamabad during the recent conflict between the two neighborhoods in South Asia. Ankara denied sending weapons to Pakistan.

In recent weeks, Erdogan has expressed his solidarity with Pakistan after India has carried out military attacks through nine locations in Kashmir Pakistan and Pakistan. New Delhi said that the attacks were in response to an attack on April 22nd by tourists by the armed fighters in Bahjam in Kashmir, which relies on the Indian, which left 25 Indian and one of the Nepalese national dead. India has accused Pakistan with indirect support for the attack – which Pakistan denies.

Turkiye warned of the risk of a “overall war” between nuclear armed neighbors and called on both sides to “show a good feeling” to reduce tensions, while expressing support for Islamabad’s request to conduct an international investigation into the Bahama attack.

The two countries announced the ceasefire on May 10.

Turkiye faces a violent reaction in India

Turki and Pakistan have always connected close economic and military ties.

In February, Erdogan visited Islamabad, where the two countries signed 24 cooperation agreements to enhance bilateral relations.

In a sign of India’s dissatisfaction with Ankara, an India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said that “relations are based on sensitivity to each other’s fears,” said India’s discontent with Ankara.

“We expect Turkey to urge Pakistan to end its support for terrorism across the border and take reliable and can be verified against the ecosystems of terrorism, which has been residing for decades,” Randir Jaiswal said at a press conference on Thursday.

Meanwhile, grocery stores and pioneering retailers on the Internet in India announced the boycott of Turkish products ranging from chocolate, coffee, jam, cosmetics, as well as clothes.

Flipkart Retail and Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has removed many Turkish clothes brands from its sites.

However, it is dominated that the metal fuel and precious metals in India amount to $ 2.7 billion in Turkish goods imports, dominated by metal fuel and precious metals. We still do not know how bilateral trade will be affected amid tense relations.

Indian travel companies also suspended flights, hotel, hotels and holiday packages to Turki “in solidarity with the National Authority of India and Sovereignty.”

India has not officially requested companies to boycott Turkish products. But the country’s Ministry of Civil Aviation on May 15 canceled the security clearance of the Turkish security company.