Turkey is in ardent preparation for the elections that are scheduled to take place in June next year.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been away from Turkey for two successive occasions in recent days. One was his participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The other was his participation in the UN General Assembly in New York.

Aguila Saleh, speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives — the Tobruk-based parliament — visited Ankara at the beginning of August and was received by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mustafa Sentop, speaker of the Turkish parliament.