Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left for the Republic of South Africa to participate in the G20 leaders’ summit.
At Esenboga Airport in Ankara, the TUR presidential flight was seen off by Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz and the Governor of Ankara Province Vasip Sahin.
Together with Erdogan, his wife Emine Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and the Governor of Ankara Province flew to South Africa. Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek, head of the Office of Communications under the Presidential Administration Burhanettin Duran, head of the personal secretariat of the president Hasan Dogan, chief adviser to the president on foreign policy and security issues Akif Çağatay Kılıç, deputy chairman and press secretary of the Justice and Development Party Omer Çelik, as well as a number of other officials.