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TEHRAN, December 25 -US President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation by his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to visit the country next year, according to a spokesperson for Turkey’s leader.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -US President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation by his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to visit the country next year, according to a spokesperson for Turkey’s leader.
Turkish Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters on Monday that Trump wants to make the trip in 2019 but no date has been set yet. Kalin said Erdogan extended the invitation during a weekend phone call between the presidents.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley confirmed the invitation in a statement on Monday evening, saying, “While nothing definite is being planned, the President is open to a potential meeting in the future.”
The invitation comes after Trump’s announcement last week that American troops would be pulled out of Syria.
Erdogan welcomed Trump’s abrupt decision, temporarily postponing a planned invasion of Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeastern regions.
Elsewhere in his Monday’s comments, Kalin said a US military delegation would visit Turkey this week to “discuss how to coordinate (the withdrawal) with their counterparts.”
He added that a Turkish Foreign Ministry delegation would go to Washington for talks early January.
Trump’s announcement came amid tensions between the two NATO allies over Washington’s support for the Kurdish militants operating near the Turkish border in Syria.
Turkey sees Washington’s military presence as an obstacle in dealing with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian offshoot of the homegrown Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which Ankara has blacklisted as a terror organization.
The PKK has been engaged in a prolonged insurgency against Ankara since 1984.
The YPG gained de facto autonomous rule in the region adjoining Turkey’s southern border as Syria’s central government focused its resources on fighting a foreign-led Takfiri militancy that plunged the country in turmoil in recent years.
Source: presstv
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