Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is paying an official visit to Turkey and will meet the Turkish president and prime minister on Wednesday.

Heading a delegation including the economy minister and other senior ministers, he is scheduled to arrive in Istanbul on Tuesday evening. He will proceed to open the Hungarian cultural institute and trade house in the Turkish capital this evening, and representatives of both countries will sign a number of agreements, including the pact on setting up the Hungary-Turkey trade house and several business agreements. Further an agreement on easing visa requirements will also be signed.

Prime Minister Orbán is also scheduled to give a speech on Tuesday evening at a Turkish-Hungarian businessmen's meeting. He will be received by Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at his residency on Wednesday morning, after which he will deliver a speech at Marmara University. The Hungarian delegation will then travel to Ankara, where the Hungarian Prime Minister will lay a wreath at the mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk and address a Hungarian-Turkish businessmen's forum.

In the afternoon, Prime Minister Orbán will meet President Abdullah Gul, Speaker of Parliament Cemil Cicek and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the latter meeting, a Hungarian-Turkish strategic cooperation council will be set up with the participation of Hungarian and Turkish political leaders. The representatives of the two cabinets will then sign cooperation agreements in energy affairs, environmental protection, education, culture, water management, railway transport and security.

(Prime Minister's Office)