KYIV, July 10 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held a meeting with Minister of National Defense of Turkey Hulusi Akar who was in Ukraine on a working visit.

"The head of state expressed gratitude for Turkey's unstinting support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, as well as for the attention paid by the Turkish side to protecting the rights and interests of the Crimean Tatars. The representative of the Turkish government reiterated the country's readiness to implement agreements on building 500 apartments for Crimean Tatars, who were forced to move from the occupied Crimea," the President's Office said in a statement released on Friday evening.