ROME: President Joe Biden plans to tell Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Sunday morning meeting in the group of 20 summit that the two countries need to find ways to avoid the crisis with each other, because the Alliance has been tested recently by no longer recognize US envoys and Turkish purchases from the Russian S-400 defense system made.
“We plan to have a good conversation,” Biden said when the two leaders were standing together before their meeting.
The President did not answer questions about human rights and whether Turkey had grown too close to Russia.
Both leaders also plan to discuss regional issues involving Syria and Libya, a senior US administration official said Saturday.
Officially insisted on anonymity to discuss the upcoming conversation between Biden and Erdogan.
The role of Turkey as NATO allies has been under sharp supervision in recent weeks.
Erdogan on the October 23 rally said that 10 foreign ambassadors called for the release of imprisoned generators must be declared non-grata personality.
Envoy, including US representatives, France and Germany, had previously issued a statement that tried to resolve the case of Osman Kavala, a businessman and philanthropist held in prison since 2017 despite being not punished for crime.
Erdogan did not follow up on threats.
But it reflects increased tensions with the United States.
“I cannot honestly say that there is a healthy process in Turkish-American relations,” said Anadolu news agency issued by Erdogan in September.
Both leaders did not meet for bilateral talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Since Biden became president, they only met in June at the peak of NATO where they discussed the possibility of Turkey securing and operating Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
But the plan yawned when the Taliban was quickly controlling Afghanistan in the midst of the US military departure.
The Turkish President has said he is open to buy a second Russian missile system, despite the controversy produced by the 2017 agreement to obtain the S-400 Russian system.
In September interviews with CBS News, Erdogan said that Turkey was not given the choice to buy American Patriot missiles.
He also said the US did not convey the Jets Stealth F-35 despite payment of $ 1.4 billion.
Turkey was excluded from the F-35 program and defense officials sanctions after buying the S-400 missile defense system made by Russia.
The US is very objected to the use of the Russian system in NATO and said it pose a threat to the F-35.
Turkey maintains the S-400S can be used independently without being integrated into the NATO system and therefore does not risk.
There are additional sources of tension for both countries, including the records of Turkish human rights; US support for Syrian Kurdish fighters whose Turks consider terrorists; And the sustainable US residency of a Muslim scholar accused of planning a failed coup attempt against the Erdogan government in 2016.
Biden to tell Erdogan that we and Turkey must avoid the crisis
