{"id":40655,"date":"2026-02-17T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40655"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:04:25","slug":"erdogan-postpones-uae-visit-over-al-nahyans-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40655","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan postpones UAE visit over Al Nahyan\u2019s health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Turkiye\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a postponement of his visit to Abu Dhabi due to a health issue involving Emirati leader Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, but later deleted the post from social media<\/p>\n<p>The message, posted by Erdogan\u2019s team on X, said he had talked with Al Nahyan by phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the course of the call, President Erdogan expressed his sadness over the health problem experienced by (President) Al Nahyan and wished him a prompt recovery,\u201d said the three-paragraph message.<\/p>\n<p>President @RTErdogan spoke by phone with President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders discussed the cooperation opportunities between the two countries and the steps to further strengthen the bilateral relations in line with their common\u2026<br \/>\n\u2014 Presidency of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye (@trpresidency) February 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan would travel to the United Arab Emirates at a later date, still to be determined, the message added.<\/p>\n<p>Although the message \u2014 of which AFP has a screen grab \u2014 was quickly deleted from the account, it had already been picked up by official Turkish media.<\/p>\n<p>Turkiye\u2019s state broadcaster likewise took down its article on Erdogan that mentioned the Emirati leader\u2019s health problem.<\/p>\n<p>The official Emirati news agency, WAM, reported on the telephone conversation between the two leaders, but did not mention that Erdogan\u2019s visit had been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted by AFP, neither the Turkish presidency nor the Emirati authorities \u2014 who have themselves made no statement on their president\u2019s health \u2014 have yet answered.<\/p>\n<p>The Emirati leader\u2019s team on Saturday evening released photos taken the same day showing Al Nahyan, known as MBZ, smiling and apparently in good health, with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkiye\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a postponement of his visit to Abu Dhabi due to a health issue involving Emirati leader Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, but later deleted the post from social media The message, posted by Erdogan\u2019s team on X, said he had talked with Al Nahyan by phone. \u201cDuring the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}