ISTANBUL: Venezuela\u2019s interim President Delcy Rodriguez will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday after arriving in Istanbul on a surprise visit, officials said.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez, who has led Venezuela since US forces captured former socialist president Nicolas Maduro in January, arrived in Istanbul late on Sunday after a five-day visit to India.<\/p>\n
Her arrival was announced on X by Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, who said she had come at Erdogan\u2019s invitation.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez and Erdogan were to meet at 5:30 p.m. (1430 GMT) at the Dolmabahce Palace on the shores of the Bosphorus, the presidency said.<\/p>\n
Turkiye has strong ties with oil-rich Venezuela, and Erdogan had close ties with the governments of late socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez and his successor Maduro.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Turkiye has signed a number of agreements with Venezuela in the fields of defense, energy, tourism and agriculture.<\/p>\n
Venezuela has the world\u2019s largest proven oil reserves, but years of corruption, underinvestment and mismanagement have seen a dramatic collapse in production.<\/p>\n
The situation worsened with a US oil embargo in 2019, although Washington eased the sanctions after Maduro\u2019s capture and Rodriguez has since pushed through reforms opening up the oil industry to private capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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