Top Turkish, Hungarian defense chiefs discuss security issues

ANKARA

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and his Hungarian counterpart Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky on Tuesday spoke over the phone and discussed security issues.

The phone call came ahead of a NATO defense ministers meeting scheduled to be held in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday.

Akar and Szalay-Bobrovniczky discussed bilateral and regional defense and security issues, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said in a statement.