Erdogan meets Dostum; VP may return home soon

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey met Afghanistan's First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum late on Friday.

The meeting at the presidential complex in Ankara -- Turkey’s capital -- was closed to the media, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday.

Dostum, a leader of the Uzbek community, has been in Turkey since May. The ex-warlord was expected to return to Afghanistan in the near future, the news agency said.

Jamiat-i-Islami party head Atta Mohammad Noor and, Deputy Chief Executive Officer Mohammad Mohaqiq met Dostum in Ankara in July to form a new alliance called Salvation of Afghanistan.

PAN Monitor