Several foreign leaders from Venezuela to Armenia are expected to travel to Turkey for the inauguration day.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to take his oath and officially begin his new term as country’s executive president on Saturday after his election victory.
Attendees: Nearly 20 government and state leaders are expected to attend the inauguration day, which will see four separate ceremonies to be held in Ankara, Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT reported.
The inauguration day will start in the morning with Erdogan’s swearing-in in the capital Ankara, where the security is heightened for the visiting foreign leaders and dignitaries. Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian President Nicole Pashinian and Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber are among the leaders who are expected to attend the ceremony, Turkish press reported.
