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US official reveals what Joe Biden will say to Tayyip Erdogan today

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US official reveals what Joe Biden will say to Tayyip Erdogan today

US President Joe Biden will warn his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a meeting in Rome later in the day that spasms are not good for the bilateral relationship and that crises should be avoided. said a US official on Saturday.

The Turkish president canceled in extremis on Monday the deportation of ten Western ambassadors he had ordered – from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand. The ten diplomats publicly intervened on October 18 in favor of mystic and businessman Osman Kavala, who has been imprisoned for four years without being convicted, calling for a “fair and speedy settlement” of the case, which the Turkish head of state described as “indecent” and “Severe insult”.

What an American official revealed

Certainly the (US) president will point out that we must find a way to avoid crises like this in the future, and that spasms are not going to benefit the US-Turkey partnership and alliance,” he said. official to journalists.

He added that the meeting would not have taken place if Recep Tayyip Erdogan had ousted the US ambassador. But, he added, this issue has been resolved, for the time being at least.

Joe Biden , who exchanged a brief greeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday at the start of the G20, also plans to discuss with him the purchase of 40 F-16 fighter jets and another 80 modernization packages already in its fleet. the Turkish Air Force, bilateral relations in the field of defense, as well as regional issues, especially the crises in Syria and Libya, where the positions of the two countries have wide differences.

US official reveals what Joe Biden will say to Tayyip Erdogan today

US lawmakers are reacting to the possible sale of F-16s and modernization kits and threatening to block it, citing Ankara's purchase of the Russian S-400 anti-missile system and Turkey's “acting as an adversary” to the United States. The purchase led to the cancellation of the contract for the purchase of US state-of-the-art stealth F-35 fighter jets from Ankara and its expulsion from their co-production program.

The two leaders last met separately in June, on the sidelines of NATO's annual summit. By the way, Mr. Biden did not receive Mr. Erdogan, as he had hoped, in September, when he attended the UN General Assembly in New York.

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Source: politis.com.cy

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