Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden in Brussels on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit was positive and fruitful, and that he had invited him to visit Turkey.
He added that the two sides exchanged views on a number of regional issues and bilateral relations, and made it clear that during the bilateral and public meetings, he stressed the need to stop the support provided to the Kurdish units.
Erdogan stressed that NATO must play an active role in every place where the alliance's security umbrella is needed, from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and from Europe to Asia.
He added, "From now on, we hope that all our allies will leave aside narrow political calculations, and show full solidarity with Turkey. We agreed to use direct channels of dialogue in an effective and regular manner, in a manner befitting our allies and strategic partners."
The Turkish president stressed that "the meeting with Biden was positive in terms of continuing relations, and when I invited him to visit Turkey, he confirmed that he might come."
He pointed out that "there is no intractable issue in Turkish-American relations, and that the areas of cooperation between the two countries are broader and richer than contentious issues," noting that he assured Biden the firmness of Turkey's position on the S-400 system and fighters. F-35" (F-35).
The meeting between the delegations of the two countries lasted 40 minutes at NATO headquarters (Anatolia).
old knowledge
Regarding the chill that has affected relations between the two countries since the advent of the Biden administration, Erdogan said that the first direct, face-to-face meeting with Biden after taking office took place on the occasion of the NATO summit, and added that their knowledge of each other is very old and not recent.
On the economic level, Erdogan referred to the goal of reaching $100 billion in the volume of trade exchange between the two countries, noting that the current figure is around $22 billion.
Biden said the talks were "positive and productive" to discuss how to move forward on a number of issues.
Biden confirmed that his team and the Turkish president's team will now work out the details of what they agreed, adding, "I am confident that we will make real progress" in relations.
After the meeting between the two presidents, a 40-minute meeting began between the delegations of the two countries, and took place inside the NATO headquarters in the Belgian capital, Brussels.