Ahmadinejad arrives in Istanbul

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in Istanbul to participate in an Asian security summit in Turkey as part of a three-nation tour.

President Ahmadinejad was welcomed by the Turkish officials and Iran’s Ambassador to Turkey Bahman Hosseinpour upon arrival at the airport on Monday.

President Ahmadinejad, who heads a high ranking delegation, will attend a security summit in Istanbul dubbed the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas are among the other top diplomats attending the summit.