Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has invited Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to his wedding.

Ozil was criticised last year after meeting Erdogan, in which he and then Germany teammate Ilkay Gundogan were pictured posing for a picture with the leader.

That ultimately led to his retirement from international football, with Ozil claiming he was the victim of “racism and disrespect".

But FourFourTwo reports Ozil and his fiancee Amine Gulse met Erdogan at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport to invite the leader to their wedding in person.

The Arsenal midfielder has been dating Amine Gulse, the 2014 Miss Turkey winner, since 2016 and they were engaged a year later.