Biden to warn Erdogan of ‘abrupt actions’

A message to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop the challenges is expected to be sent by Joe Biden at their meeting, which is ongoing.

“Certainly Joe Biden will point out that we must find a way to avoid future crises, and that spasmodic actions will not benefit the US-Turkey partnership and alliance,” a US official told reporters before the meeting. clarifying would not be done if its president Turkey had deported the American ambassador.

Joe Biden, who exchanged a brief greeting with him Recep Tayyip Erdogan Yesterday, at the start of the G20, he also intends to discuss with him the request for the purchase of 40 F-16 fighters and modernization packages of another 80 that the Turkish Air Force already has in its fleet, the bilateral relationship in the field of defense, as well as regional issues, in particular the crises in Syria and Libya, where the two countries’ positions differ widely.

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 the fact that Turkey “behaves like an adversary” of the USA. This purchase led to the cancellation of the contract for the purchase of US state-of-the-art stealth fighters F-35 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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