Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulates Turkish head of state in telephone conversation, and agrees on personal meeting
28. 04. 2017.
Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed miniszterelnok.hu that on Thursday evening Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had a telephone conversation with Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Prime Minister congratulated the President of Turkey on the success of the referendum on amendment of the Turkish Constitution. Mr. Havasi said that Mr. Erdogan had proposed a separate bilateral meeting with Mr. Orbán as part of the “One Belt, One Road” forum to be held in China in May, and the Hungarian prime minister was pleased to accept.

On Thursday Turkey’s Supreme Election Council announced the official result of the referendum on introduction of an executive presidential system, which was held on 16 April: 51.41 per cent of the votes were in favour of the constitutional amendment, with 48.59 per cent against.