(JNS) Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğl arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning for an official state visit.

The minister will visit the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem on Wednesday, and hold a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, as well as with Israel’s Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov, according to Maariv.

He will also hold meetings with senior Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah, according to the report.

Çavuşoğlu is scheduled to tour the Old City in Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, where he will reportedly be without the accompaniment of Israeli officials in line with a request from Ankara.

The Turkish minister’s visit comes as part of a warming of ties between Ankara and Jerusalem.