Sudan and Turkey on Tuesday issued a joint communique at the end of the visit of President Reccep Tayyib Edrogan of Turkey to the Sudan

The communique said President Reccep Tayyib Erdogan paid a three day official visit to the Sudan at the invitation of President of the Sudan, Field Marshal Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir. 

It said the visit which took place from 24th to the 26th of December 2017, was aimed to deepen the bonds of brotherhood relations between the two counties, relationship based on historical, cultural and social ties which are deeply engrained and to boost the economic partnership between the two countries.

This visit, the communique said, is the first of its kind to the Sudan by a president from Turkey since the Sudan gained its independence and is a qualitative leap in the relations between the two states.