Recep Tayyip Erdogan

President Putin, who ordered his troops to invade neighbouring Ukraine in February, looked stony faced as he waited for Erdoğan to enter the room.

Turkey’s current leader President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the time had come to re-convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

The two leaders, whose nations have backed opposing sides in the Syrian conflict, said a ceasefire will come into force at midnight.