Turkey: President Gul in Rome amid corruption scandal
Meeting with Napolitano today, economic forum tomorrow
29 January, 10:51
(by Francesco Cerri) ANKARA - Turkish head of State Abdullah Gul on Tuesday night arrived in Rome to start a four-day visit to Italy while the political climate in Istanbul and Ankara is getting increasingly sour over Turkey's sweeping corruption scandal which involves the government of Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Today Gul is due to meet Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, the speaker of the Senate Pietro Grasso and mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino. Tomorrow he will take part to the business Forum 'Matching Italia-Turkia'.
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