UNGA 77 meetings with Turkish President Erdogan, Prime Minister Yair Lapid

On September 19, during his visit to New York to attend the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Türkiye, received representatives of the American Jewish community at the Turkish House.

FFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier along with Turkish Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Murat Mercan, facilitated the historic Ankara meeting between the Turkish President and Israeli President Isaac Herzog back in March. The Rabbi is seeing in the above photo reviewing with President Erdoğan the great success of that encounter.

On September 21, Rabbi Schneier joined a delegation of American Jewish leaders in New York to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid. The Prime Minister inquired about Rabbi Schneier’s Global Muslim-Jewish initiatives and his recent trips to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.