ISTANBUL: Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with US counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on May 9, a Turkish official told AFP today.
It would be the first White House meeting between the two leaders.
The Biden administration in January approved US$23 billion in F-16 warplanes for Turkey swiftly after it ratified Sweden’s stalled Nato membership bib.
Some analysts additionally linked Turkey’s continued delays to Erdogan’s anger at Washington for its support of how Israel is pursuing its war against Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip.
Erdogan has turned into one of the Muslim world’s harshest critics of Israel’s devastating response to the unprecedented Oct 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
The Turkish leader has compared Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and accused the US of sponsoring the “genocide” of Palestinians.