{"id":46318,"date":"2026-04-04T15:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=46318"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:04:27","slug":"ukraines-zelenskiy-in-istanbul-for-security-talks-with-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=46318","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Zelenskiy in Istanbul for security talks with Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived \u200bin Istanbul for &#8220;substantive&#8221; talks on security issues with \u200cTurkiye&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Zelenskiy said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working to strengthen our partnership \u200bto ensure real protection of people\u2019s \u200blives, advance stability and guarantee security \u2060in our Europe, as well as \u200bin the Middle East,&#8221; Zelenskiy wrote \u200bon X.<\/p>\n<p>Arrived in Istanbul, where important meetings are scheduled. Substantive talks have been prepared with the President of T\u00fcrkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p>We are working to strengthen our partnership to ensure real protection of people\u2019s lives, advance stability and guarantee\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/SsAeVbetMT<br \/>\n\u2014 Volodymyr Zelenskyy \/ \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@ZelenskyyUa) April 4, 2026<\/p>\n<p>He did not elaborate further on the subject of the talks. Ukraine has recently \u200bsigned security co-operation agreements with Saudi \u200bArabia, the UAE and Qatar, and says it \u200cis \u2060in talks with several other Middle Eastern states about similar arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Ukraine, UAE agree to cooperate on defence: Zelensky<\/p>\n<p>After the outbreak of war in the Middle East, \u200bUkraine has \u200bsought to \u2060leverage its counter-drone experience acquired during its four-year-long war against \u200bRussia.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has long deployed Iranian-designed \u200bdrones \u2060to strike Ukraine since its February 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy&#8217;s spokesman told reporters that Zelenskiy would \u2060meet \u200bPatriarch Bartholomew, the most \u200bsenior cleric in the Orthodox Church.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived \u200bin Istanbul for &#8220;substantive&#8221; talks on security issues with \u200cTurkiye&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Zelenskiy said on Saturday. &#8220;We are working to strengthen our partnership \u200bto ensure real protection of people\u2019s \u200blives, advance stability and guarantee security \u2060in our Europe, as well as \u200bin the Middle East,&#8221; Zelenskiy wrote [&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-46318","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\/46318","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=46318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}