MR meets Turkey President

23 September 2010 03:08 am

President Mahinda Rajapaksa held talks with President Abdullah Gul of Turkey early hours of today on the sidelines of US sessions, presidential sources in New York said. The Turkish President had commended Sri Lanka’s victory over terrorism and briefed the Sri Lankan President about the separatist problem in Turkey and the need to carry forward the agreements reached during President Rajapaksa’s visit to Turkey in 2008.