Minister of National Defence Hulusi Akar who was accompanied by the Chief of General Staff Yaşar Güler visited Sudan so as to hold official talks.  Minister of National Defence Hulusi Akar was welcomed by the Sudanese officials and Turkish Ambassador to Khartoum at the Khartoum Airport.

Within the scope of the visit, Minister of National Defence Hulusi Akar held meetings with his Sudanese counterpart General Awad Mohammed Ahmed Ibn Auf and Chief of General Staff of Sudan General Kamal Abdel Ma’arouf el-Mahi Bashir.

Following the visits , Minister Akar visited Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir at the Presidential Palace.

During the meetings, the topics including defence and military co-operation areas,regional security issues between the two countries and military training centers planned to be established by Turkey in Sudan  were handled as well as the activities in Sevakın Island of which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked the island to be restored during his visit to Sudan in December.