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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 3) a visit to Caracas to sign cooperation agreements with his Venezuelan counterpart and ally Nicolas Maduro, confronted with a serious economic crisis and regional isolation.
In his first public activities, the Turkish president laid an offering of flowers in the tomb of Venezuelan Simón Bolívar and then participated in a working meeting with Maduro
Both leaders anticipate to meet in the afternoon at the Presidential Palace of Miraflores
Erdogan went to the National Pantheon in the center of C and Tareck El Aissami, Vice President of the Economy, which the hosted Sunday night upon arriving in the country after attending the G20 summit in Argentina.
Relations between Venezuela and Turkey have tightened in recent years, especially as the United States has increased pressure on Maduro through financial and individual sanctions.
Erdogan took advantage of this visit to criticize "attacks and sabotage" against "
Not to mention the United States, the Turkish president insisted that" restrictions and trade sanctions are unacceptable " and warned that the deepening of "instabilities."
"You can not punish an entire people for solving political misunderstandings, you know it from the bitter experiences of the past," Erdogan said, according to the translation of an interpreter, at a professional forum, a tense relationship with the White House, which calls for the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gülen, accused by Erdogan of orchestrating the coup d & # 39; Missed state of 2016.
The rapprochement between Erdogan and Maduro also intensified in the context of the serious political and socio-economic crisis in Venezuela.While the vital production of oil was shaken, the socialis leader has invited Turkey and other international partners to invest in the exploration of a vast mining reserve, known as the Orinoco Arch (south), with gold, diamond and coltan deposits. among others.
The non-oil trade between the two countries is close to 800 million dollars this year, according to Caracas, a not insignificant figure.
El Aissami also announced Monday that Turkish entrepreneurs were planning to invest 4.5 billion euros in the partner country of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [19659003MadurosaysthathehasgreatadmirationforErdoganespeciallyfortheironfistthathehasappliedafterthecoupattempt
On July 8, Maduro traveled to Turkey to attend the inauguration of Erdogan since 2003 for a new term. five years.
The Venezuelan head of state badured on this occasion that he would have talks with investors and businessmen
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