Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said that the statements of Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden about Turkey worsen the image of the United States in Turkey and the world.
He added - in an interview with Bloomberg Agency on Monday - that there is a general consensus about the United States' support for coup plotters around the world, and "there are examples of that, and this is not an illusion."
Ten days ago, the media circulated statements by Joe Biden, made last December, in which he called for cooperation with the Turkish opposition to bring down Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
On the other hand, Kalin stressed that Washington's proposal to remove Turkey's Russian S-400 air defense systems as a prerequisite for strengthening its security, trade and other relations with Ankara is wrong.
He added that this condition is not acceptable to Ankara, and stressed that Turkey is a sovereign state, and the decision to purchase Russian defense systems was taken on a sovereign basis, noting that work is underway to activate these defense systems, and that will not be reversed.
A national threat,
Klan explained that Turkey has two main problems that pose a threat to its national security, namely, "Washington's support for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists in Syria, and its failure to hand over the elements of the Gulen terrorist organization," noting that his country seeks to solve these two problems with the United States.
In another context, Qalin pointed out that China has the second largest economy in the world, and it is a strong economic and political actor that is growing in vitality, and it will turn into a political, military and energy power.
He explained that Turkey is working to look at foreign policy from a comprehensive perspective, so it does not see any contradiction between its membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its involvement in the files of the Middle East or North Africa, and its deeper economic relations with Asian economies.