Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan visit in Russia is widely seen as an attempt to improve relations between the two countries after months of tensions.
Erdogan's government says relations with Russia are important in the continuing efforts to bring a solution to the war in Syria.
Turkey and Russia have reached a clear consensus on normalising ties, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said in a press conference following their meeting.
Erdogan's visit to Putin's hometown of St Petersburg on Tuesday was also his first foreign trip since a failed coup attempt last month that sparked a purge of alleged coup supporters in the military, judiciary, civil service and education sector, and cast a shadow over Turkey's relations with the West.
