ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish and U.S. officials held two days of meetings on Thursday and Friday focusing on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a mark of a warming of relations between Washington and Ankara since Turkey approved the Sweden’s accession to NATO, after months of procrastination.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan welcomed Thursday evening a “new psychology”, a “more positive agenda”.
“While responding to the problems we face, it is important to grasp the common potential that our two countries can create and the opportunities they can bring,” he added.
The two allies remain at odds over a number of issues, in particular Ankara’s acquisition of Russian S-400 anti-missile defense systems, which led Washington to exclude Turkey from its manufacturing and production program in 2019. purchase of the F-35 fighter plane, and United States support for Kurdish fighters in Syria.
(Tuvan Gumrukcu, Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the French version)
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