Drones and more: Polish president visits Turkey

Security challenges and business opportunities were on the top of the agenda for Poland's President Andrzej Duda during his visit to Turkey this week.

Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks to the media in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday.

Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański

While in the country’s capital Ankara on Monday, Duda met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the company of Polish Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gliński and Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak.

During the meeting, officials signed a deal on Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones for the Polish army, making Poland the first NATO member to buy these.

🇵🇱 🇹🇷 Podsumowanie pierwszego dnia wizyty Prezydenta @AndrzejDuda w #Turcja ➡ https://t.co/jiAqrkTErU pic.twitter.com/D3kWZmce9M

— Kancelaria Prezydenta (@prezydentpl) May 24, 2021

In Ankara, the Polish president also viewed a recently acquired collection of books, archives and mementoes belonging to Michał Sokolnicki, a onetime Polish ambassador to Turkey.

ℹ Od kilku miesięcy w ambasadzie polskiej w Ankarze zdeponowane są zbiory polskiego dyplomaty Michała Sokolnickiego, bliskiego współpracownika Józefa Piłsudskiego. W zbiorach znajdują się m. in. pamiątki rodzinne Sokolnickiego, rękopisy, zdjęcia i negatywy oraz osobiste notatki. pic.twitter.com/hQL7pCHQ6b

— Kancelaria Prezydenta (@prezydentpl) May 24, 2021

Radio Poland’s Elżbieta Krajewska has the story.

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