Poroshenko to visit Turkey to discuss stronger defense capacity, economic cooperation with Erdogan

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will pay an official visit to Turkey, on March 9-10, 2016.

"On these Shevchenko days, I will go to Turkey for an official visit," the president said at the Shevchenko Award ceremony in Kyiv, on Thursday.

This is a crucial visit, he said. "You know well how important the dialogue with Turkey is for Ukraine now," he added.

Poroshenko is planned to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss ways of strengthening defense capacity and political and economic cooperation.