Erdogan, Netanhayu meet in UN General Assembly

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00:00 The news overseas, it was nothing short of eventful and historic.

00:04 For the first time ever, Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who reportedly pushed for

00:09 this encounter more than anyone else, met in the flesh and sat down with Israeli Prime

00:14 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly

00:20 in New York City.

00:22 In a sign of frosty relations thawing between Ankara and Tel Aviv, Erdogan and Netanyahu

00:27 discussed mutual visits to the other one's country.

00:31 With Erdogan looking at a trip to the Holy Land next month to pray inside the Al-Aqsa

00:36 Mosque in celebration of the centennial founding of the Turkish Republic in October 29, 1923.

00:43 In their tête-à-tête, Erdogan and Netanyahu talked on potential cooperation on energy,

00:48 technology, artificial intelligence and cyber security, among others.

00:53 Earlier Erdogan met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky amidst a backdrop of rising

00:59 tensions and also told reporters of his support for President Joe Biden's initiatives to broker

01:05 a Saudi-Israel deal.