The decision comes after Erdogan met a senior UAE official to debate financial cooperation.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken by cellphone with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) de facto ruler, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in a brand new signal of bettering ties between the regional rivals.
A press release launched by Erdogan’s workplace on Tuesday mentioned: “Relations between the international locations and regional points had been mentioned within the talks”.
The UAE’s state information company WAM mentioned each leaders mentioned “the prospects of reinforcing the relations between the 2 nations in a manner that serves their widespread pursuits and their two peoples”.
The statements got here two weeks after the Turkish president mentioned, throughout a uncommon assembly with UAE Nationwide Safety Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, that the 2 international locations had made progress in bettering relations.
Erdogan mentioned on the time that the talks, which targeted on financial cooperation, may result in vital UAE funding in Turkey.
The discussions come as Turkey has made wider strikes to ease tensions with a number of Arab powers heightened by the battle in Libya, inner Gulf disputes and rival claims to Japanese Mediterranean waters.
Ankara and Abu Dhabi have backed rival ideological teams for years, with the previous notably supporting the Muslim Brotherhood motion, an instrumental drive within the so-called Arab Spring uprisings wherein plenty of regional international locations overthrew autocrats.
Leaders within the pure resource-rich Gulf have lengthy fearful such unrest would attain house.
Turkey final yr accused the UAE of bringing chaos to the Center East via interventions in Yemen and Libya.