Discussion of disagreements between the United States and Turkey will become the main agenda item for the upcoming meeting of the presidents of the two countries Joe Bayden and Tayip Erdogan. This was announced on Tuesday US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, reports TASS.
“I can say with confidence that when President Biden is seen with President Erdogan about a week later, it will be a central agenda item,” said Blinken about the contradictions between Washington and Ankara, speaking on hearings in the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Congress Senate USA. “Our disagreements, including those mentioned by you now, are not secret,” said the head of the US foreign policy department, answering the questions of the Chairman of the Committee of Robert Menndes (Democrat, from New Jersey).
In addition, in his opinion, Turkey took the “causing a deep alarm” actions in the Eastern Mediterranean.
“I also say that we are interested in keeping Turkey” anchored “in the West. We have important and coincident interests in Syria, in the fight against terrorism, in Afghanistan, in terms of reflection of a certain malicious influence of Russia and Iran. . But we must directly deal with disagreements, “added Blinken.
It is planned that the bilateral negotiations of Erdogan and Biden will be held on the fields of NATO summit in Brussels on June 14. This will be their first meeting as heads of state, in Turkey it is expected from winter. However, the parties do not stop mutual attacks and criticism. Erdogan, in particular, accuses Washington in carrying out non-constructive and dangerous for the Middle East region politicians, the United States in turn signals that they are alarmed by “rollback from democracy” in Turkey.