Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, shakes hands with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at al-Shaab presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, on Oct. 11, 2010. (Photo: AP/Bassem Tellawi, File)
Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (Right) received Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (Left) and a high-ranking delegation on Thursday March 14 in Baghdad. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
This handout photograph taken and released by Turkish Presidency Press Office on March 1, 2024, shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivering a speech.(Photo: HANDOUT/TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/AFP)
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammad Shia’ Al-Sudani (right), walks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, March 21, 2023. (Photo: the Media Office of the Iraqi Prime Minister)
a Turkish flag waving over rubbles of destroyed buldings in Antakya, Hatay, a week after a deadly earthquake struck parts of Turkey and Syria, Feb. 14, 2023. (Photo: Hassan Ayadi/AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) shaking hands with US Secretary of Antony J. Blinken, Feb. 20, 2023. (Photo: Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)
A Turkish soldier holds a trumpet with the Turkish flag as taking part in a parade during the celebration of Turkey's Republic Day in Istanbul. (Photo: Emrah Gurel/ AP)
A Turkish F16 fighting jet flies over naval ships during an annual NATO naval exercise that also taking part Greek forces, on Turkey's western coast on the Mediterranean, on Sept. 15, 2022. (Photo: AP/ Khalil Hamra)
Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, December 12, 2022. (Photo: Virginia Mayo/ AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russia, Sept. 29, 2021. (Photo: AFP/ Vladimir Smirnov)
