President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan departed on Monday for Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit.
The special aircraft carrying the president, his wife Emine Erdoğan, and the accompanying delegation took off from Ankara Airport at 9 am (0600GMT).
Erdoğan was seen off at Ankara Airport by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, Presidential Secretary-General Hakkı Susmaz, Ankara Governor Yakup Canbolat, and other officials.
