Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thanked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the meeting and said that bilateral relations are set on the positive track.
He said that Turkey was entering a "very different period" in relations with Russia, and that solidarity between the two countries would help the resolution of regional problems.
Speaking in St. Petersburg ahead of a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Erdogan thanked his Russian counterpart for his telephone call after a failed military coup on July 15, saying it "brought our people great happiness".
Cooperation between Russia and Turkey will contribute to dealing with many problems in the region, Erdogan said.
"We have a lot of issues on the agenda concerning bilateral relations and their development," he said. "The region expects us to make many political decisions. I believe that our cooperation will make a sizeable contribution to solving many problems in the region," TASS cited Erdogan as saying.
