Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the first week of August, according to a report by Turkey’sstate-run Anadolu news agency.
The report Sunday cited an anonymous “presidential source.” It did not give the exact date for the meeting nor did it say where it is expected to take place. Putin agreed to the meeting in a phone conversation with Erdoğan, in which the Russian president expressed support “for Turkey following Friday’s attempted coup,” the Anadolu report said.
Turkish government officials said on Saturday they have quashed the coup. At least 265 people have been killed in the violence that ensued after a fraction of the military rolled out tanks onto the streets on Friday evening in Istanbul and Ankara to take over.
Erdoğan vowed severe punishment of alleged participants in the coup and its suspected supporters. At least 6,000 people have been detained, most of them from the military, but also many judges and other judiciary officials.