{"id":741265,"date":"2026-08-17T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741265\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:10:25","slug":"erdogan-uk-prime-minister-discuss-regional-developments-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741265\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan, UK Prime Minister discuss regional developments, bilateral ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, Aug. 17 (SANA) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan held a phone call on Monday with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to discuss regional and <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/international-developments\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"17428\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international developments<\/a>, the Turkish presidency said.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders also addressed bilateral relations, which have seen significant progress through cooperation across all fields, particularly in the defense industry sector, according to a statement from the presidency\u2019s communications directorate on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RTErdogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@RTErdogan<\/a> spoke by phone with Prime Minister Andy Burnham of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders addressed the T\u00fcrkiye-UK bilateral relations as well as regional and global developments.<\/p>\n<p>President Erdo\u011fan congratulated Prime Minister Burnham on his new post,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Presidency of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye (@trpresidency) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trpresidency\/status\/2089440912845742217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan expressed confidence in further strengthening Turkish-British relations, noting that both countries will continue working together to achieve their goals of increasing trade volume and expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/investment\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"16345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">investment<\/a>, while maintaining focus on the strategic, security and defense partnership between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>The call follows earlier discussions this month between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his British counterpart Ed Miliband on <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/regional-developments\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"17942\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">regional developments<\/a> and de-escalation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye and the UK have maintained close defense industry cooperation, with recent agreements including the supply of Turkish-made drones to the UK and joint development projects in defense technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kh.A \/ H.H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ankara, Aug. 17 (SANA) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan held a phone call on Monday with British Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}