President Abdullah Gül participated in the opening ceremony of the Equestrian Festival held in Ashkhabad.
President Gül, prior to the ceremony, attended the breakfast that Turkmen President Gurbanguly Muhammedov hosted and which Tatarstan's President Rustam Minnihanov was also present.
Afterwards, the President proceeded to the Equestrian Sports Complex where he watched the opening ceremony of the festival during which he had a tete-a-tete with his Turkmen counterpart.