Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump will have talks in the White House on Thursday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, since the Republican guide pointed out that the sale of Advanced Fighter – Jets on Ankara may soon be canceled.
During Trump’s first term of office, the United States, a NATO allied, switched off from their flagship F-35 jet program after bought an air defense system from Russia. US officials feared that the Turkish apply of the Russia S-400 Surface-to-Air rocket system could be used to collect data about the F-35 skills and that the information could end in Russian hands.
But Trump gave Turkey the hope in the past week that a solution to the matter was close when he announced plans for Erdogan’s visit.
“We are working on many trade and military agreements with the president, including the great purchase of Boeing aircraft, a large F-16 deal and a continuation of the F-35 talks that we expect,” said Trump in a social media post.
The visit will be Erdogan’s first trip to the White House since 2019. The two guides forge, which Trump described as a “very good relationship” during his first white house, although the US turkey relationship is often complicated.
US officials have cited concerns about Turkey’s human rights record in the context of Erdogan and the relationships of the country to Russia. The tensions between Turkey and Israel, another significant American ally, sometimes made it challenging for Gaza and Syria to relationships with Türkiye.
Erdogan has made it clear that he endeavors to see the hold on F-35.
“I don’t think it will be very strategic partnership, and I don’t think it’s the right way,” Erdogan said in an interview this week about the “special report by Fox News Channel with Bret Baier”.
The Turkish officials say that they have already made a payment of 1.4 billion US dollars for the jets.
The government of President Joe Biden kept Erdogan, who has been the President of Türkiye since 2014 and has been Prime Minister for more than a decade, during the four years in the office of Democrats at the length of the arm.
The reluctance to get deeply committed was carried out from the Turkish recording of the democratic deficit and Ankara’s close relationships with Moscow.
Opposition parties and human rights organizations have accused Erdogan, undermine democracy and to contain freedom of expression during its more than two decades in power. International observers say that unfounded investigations and law enforcement measures by human rights activists, journalists, opposition politicians and others remain a persistent problem in Turkey.
But Trump sees Erdogan as a critical partner and credible intermediary in his efforts to find the goals in the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The Trump administration is also largely synchronized with Turkey’s approach in Syria, since both nations put together their attitude towards the once isolated country after the fall of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad last December last December.
Trump and European leaders followed Erdogan to hug the Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who once commanded a group of rebel, which was appointed foreign terrorist organization.
Trump’s chief diplomat, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, met on Monday with Al-Sharaa on the edge of the United Nations General Assembly.
Erdogan has tried to position his country as a stability point in a turbulent moment. He believes that Turkey can play an crucial role in European security and is able to do geopolitical divisions about Ukraine, Syria and US tariffs that have triggered a global trade war.
Turkey is also of the opinion that it has developed as a credible broker in the Black Sea region and that it preserves relationships with both Ukraine and Russia.
Turkey is an influential actor in neighboring Syria when the rebel groups, which supported it during the civil war, took over last December. However, the fall of Assad aggravated tense relationships between Turkey and Israel, whereby their contradicting interests were urging the relationship to a possible collision course.
For his part, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked for an ANKARA to deal with Ankara.
Erdogan took part in a group assembly organized by Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Trump gathered the leaders of eight Arab and Muslim countries to discuss the almost two -year gaza strip.
The Turkish leader criticized the war envelope of Israel, which was launched after the start of Hamas militants, an attack on Israel, in which 1,200 were killed and 251 captured. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, over 65,000 Palestinians were killed, and about 90% of the houses in the territory were destroyed or damaged.
Erdogan in his Tuesday speech to the UN, which was again submitted in Israel, claimed that his armed forces had committed genocide, an assertion refuted by Israel and the United States.
“This is not a fight against terrorism,” said Erdogan. “This is a crew, deportation, exile, genocide and life destruction, mass destruction directive, which is continued by calling the events of October 7th.”
