“On behalf of my country, I would like to express special gratitude to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez for their continued support from the very first moment,” Erdogan wrote on Telegram.

Earlier, President Vladimir Putin discussed with Erdogan the situation with wildfires in Turkey.

On July 31, Erdogan said that areas in the south of the country affected by forest fires have been declared a disaster zone.