Turkey sees Georgia as the key to regional cooperation. Such a statement made today the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the joint press-conference with the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili.

“We believe that we can carry out various works that will strengthen and increase the importance and peace of our region.

Trilateral cooperation with Azerbaijan is very important in this regard. We, Turkey, support all trilateral cooperation, be it Georgia-Azerbaijan-Armenia or Georgia-Azerbaijan-Turkey.

We also decided to hold a meeting of the supreme strategic council as soon as possible this year and instructed the Ministries of Foreign Affairs to work on the date of the meeting. Using existing mechanisms, we continue to take firm steps. With this in mind, I hope and believe that our views and the meeting will contribute to and develop our relationship”, - said Recep Tayyip Erdogan.