A forthcoming visit by the Saudi crown prince could have made Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan all smiles — had he not added Greece and Cyprus to his tour. At a time of resurging tensions between Turkey and Greece, the prince’s itinerary comes as a message that Saudi Arabia has no intention to upset its friends while mending fences with Turkey.

The planned tour of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, widely referred to as MbS, will take him also to Egypt and Jordan, with the exact schedule still under discussion, according to Reuters. The trip could happen as soon as early June, two sources told the agency.

Riyadh’s perception of a growing Iranian threat, its stumbles in the Yemen war and US policy shifts could all be reasons for rapprochement with Turkey. The notion of a Sunni axis against Iran in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon is also drawing Riyadh and Ankara closer despite their collaboration with different local actors on the ground. Ankara and Tehran have clashed over an array of issues in recent months, including the formation of the new Iraqi government, the prospective export route of Kurdish gas, Turkey’s pursuit of Kurdish militants on Iraqi Kurdistan territory and threats to intervene also in Sinjar, the sharing of transboundary waters and the specter of a fresh Turkish military operation in Syria.

Erdogan may have further motives to make up with MbS, whom he had sought to discredit internationally over the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. For many observers, his quest to ease Turkey’s financial crisis is the most pressing reason.