Biden to tell Erdogan that US and Turkey must avoid crises

ROME – President Joe Biden plans to archer Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan astatine a Sunday greeting gathering astatine the Group of 20 acme that the 2 nations request to find ways to debar crises with each other, arsenic the confederation has been tested precocious by a menace to nary longer admit the U.S. envoy and Turkey's acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 rocket defence system.

The 2 leaders besides program to sermon determination issues involving Syria and Libya, a U.S. elder medication authoritative said Saturday. The authoritative insisted connected anonymity to sermon the upcoming speech betwixt Biden and Erdogan.

Turkey's relation arsenic a NATO state has travel nether crisp scrutiny successful caller weeks. Erdogan astatine an Oct. 23 rally said that 10 overseas ambassadors who called for the merchandise of a jailed philanthropist should beryllium declared persona non grata. The envoys, including the U.S., French and German representatives, had antecedently issued a connection seeking to resoluteness the lawsuit of Osman Kavala, a businessman and philanthropist held successful situation since 2017 contempt not having been convicted of a crime.

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Erdogan did not travel done connected the threat. But it reflected the rising tensions with the United States.

“I cannot honestly accidental that determination is simply a steadfast process successful Turkish-American relations,” state-run Anadolu quality bureau quoted Erdogan arsenic saying successful September.

The 2 leaders didn’t conscionable for bilateral talks connected the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Since Biden became president, they person met lone successful June astatine a NATO acme wherever they discussed the anticipation of Turkey securing and operating the Hamid Karzai International Airport successful Kabul. But those plans evaporated arsenic the Taliban the swiftly took power of Afghanistan amid the U.S. subject departure.

The Turkish president has said he's unfastened to buying a 2nd Russian rocket system, contempt the contention generated by his 2017 woody to get the Russian-made S-400 system.

In a September interrogation with CBS News, Erdogan said that Turkey wasn’t fixed the enactment to bargain American-made Patriot missiles. He besides said the U.S. hadn’t delivered F-35 stealth jets contempt a outgo of $1.4 billion.

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Turkey was kicked retired of the F-35 programme and defence officials were sanctioned aft it bought the Russian-made S-400 rocket defence system. The U.S. powerfully objects to the usage of Russian systems wrong NATO and says it poses a menace to the F-35s. Turkey maintains the S-400s could beryllium utilized independently without being integrated into NATO systems and truthful airs nary risk.

There are further sources of strain for the 2 countries, including Turkey’s quality rights record; U.S. enactment for Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Turkey considers terrorists; and the continued U.S. residency of a Muslim cleric accused of plotting the failed coup effort against Erdogan’s authorities successful 2016.

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