Turkey carefully following Afghanistan as interim gov't announced: Erdoğan

As the Taliban just announced an interim cabinet for Afghanistan, Turkey is carefully monitoring developments in the country, said the Turkish president on Sept. 7. 
"We don't know how long this interim cabinet will last. All we have to do is to follow this process carefully," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a joint press conference with Felix Tshisekedi, his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart, who is visiting the Turkish capital Ankara.
On future operations of the airport in Kabul, the Afghan capital, Erdoğan said Turkey has taken a positive approach from the start, but such developments are not yet concrete.
Turkey has long been mentioned as possibly running the Kabul airport, but it has set certain conditions, such as sharing the financial and security burdens.
The Taliban earlier Tuesday announced an "interim government" in Afghanistan to be led by Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund.
The announcement came a day after the group said they had taken full control of the country, following their lightning takeover of most of its territory last month.

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Bilateral relations
On Turkish-Congolese ties, Erdoğan said: "We have mutually confirmed our will to develop cooperation."
"We will work hard together to raise our economic and commercial relations to a level worthy of our friendship," Erdoğan said.
Boosting the bilateral trade volume to $250 million is the target, Erdoğan said, adding: "The agreements that have just been signed will contribute greatly to achieving this goal."
Ahead of the press conference, the two counties signed agreements on tourism, investment, and tax regulations.
According to Turkey's Foreign Ministry, Turkey's exports to DR Congo in 2019 totaled nearly $55.9 million and imports...