Toptan visit Syria

A delegation led by Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan over the weekend visited Damascus, Syria, including Syrian-Turkish Interparliamentary Friendship Group Chair and opposition Nationalist Movement Party deputy leader Mehmet Sandir, ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Deputies Mahmut Durdu and Mehmet Erdogan, and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Huseyin Unal. Praising the superb state of relations between the two countries' parliaments, especially in recent years, he added that this visit would give relations added momentum. Pointing to the recent visit of a Syrian parliamentary delegation to Turkey, he said such mutual visits help to strengthen bilateral relations.