G-20

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Donald Trump held an unscheduled meeting on July 8 as a part of the G-20 summit in Hamburg. The two leaders held a nearly half hour meeting before the closing session of the G20 summit, Turkish officials have said without giving more details.  

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 8 that a meeting by human rights activists in Istanbul was held with the intent as the continuation of the last year's failed coup attempt. "They gathered for a meeting which was so to say the continuation of July 15.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met on July 8 on the sidelines of the G-20 Hamburg Summit in Germany.  

The two leaders discussed bilateral cooperation, the Syrian crisis, the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project and Akkuyu nuclear power plant, the Kremlin said in a statement.  

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of the Group of 20 economic powers on July 7 that millions of people are hoping they can help solve the world's problems, and warned them that they must be prepared to make compromises.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks late on July 6 in Hamburg ahead of the G-20 summit. 

The two leaders shook hands ahead of the meeting and appeared before the press. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 6 that the European Parliament's vote to accept a report to suspend the country's EU accession talks was not binding for Turkey.

"The [decision] has no value. This decision does not bind us," Erdoğan told reporters on his way to Hamburg where he is currently attending the G-20 talks.

We will be watching the G-20 summit which begins Friday in Hamburg, Germany, with great interest. The differences seem to be starker than ever before when it comes to global issues such as climate change and trade, and these rifts characterize relations between the world's major players.

Germany and China signed a raft of key economic deals as the leaders of the both countries pledged to carry bilateral ties to a new phase in a meeting in Berlin ahead of the G-20 summit. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blasted Berlin for barring him from holding a public event with Turkish citizens in German on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, while stressing that he has "no problems" with Chancellor Angela Merkel. 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets other world leaders at Germany's G-20 summit from July 7, with conflicts looming over climate, trade and other global issues both inside and outside the heavily fortified venue.