President Erdogan due to visit Iraq towards end of year

ANKARA President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to visit Iraq towards end of this year, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sunday. "President Erdogan will visit Iraq to hold 4th High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council meeting towards end of this year," Cavusoglu said at a joint news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Mohamed Ali al-Hakim in Iraqi capital Baghdad. Underlying the importance of developing bilateral relations, Cavusoglu said two top diplomats discussed the bilateral relations in all its dimensions and exchanged views on the regional issues. The views of two countries on regional issues are overlapping, he added.