Highlighting a new low in India-Turkey relations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to cancel his two-day state visit to Turkey's capital, Ankara, that was to take place at the end of October. "The visit was never finalised, so there is no question of cancellation," an MEA source said. The two-day state visit by Modi to Ankara, which was in the talks, would have been the Prime Minister's first stand-alone visit to Turkey after he had last visited the country during the G-20 summit in Antalya in 2015. According to sources, PM Modi was slated to visit the country following his visit to Saudi Arabia, where he is going to attend a mega-investment summit on October 27-28. Trade and defence cooperation were among the issues that were to be on the table during PM Modi's Ankara visit, which had been agreed to 'in-principle.'

Source: dna October 20, 2019 02:03 UTC