Saudi Arabia will help Turkey build solar plants capable of powering more than two million homes, under a deal the two countries signed recently that aims to deepen energy cooperation between the key regional players.
The signing ceremony at an Ottoman-era palace by the waters of the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul followed a $2-billion inter-governmental energy agreement between the two countries during a landmark visit by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Riyadh on February 3.
Turkey is preparing to host the United Nations’ COP31 climate summit on its Mediterranean coast later this year, with Australia leading the negotiations.
Ties between Turkey and Saudi Arabia have steadily improved in recent years after collapsing in the wake of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.
