US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will fly to Turkey before the end of the first week of the new year. TV channel reported this TRT News Referring to Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
“Blinken will come to Turkey on Saturday,” the head of the State Department said.
According to him, the topics of discussion are planned to be the situation in the Gaza Strip, regional issues, the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance and bilateral relations. Fidan noted that the issue of selling F-16 warplanes to Turkey will also be brought to the agenda.
In Ankara on Tuesday, January 2 statedHe said they did not intend to rush to approve Sweden’s membership in NATO. In the vote held in the General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the exact date for the approval of Sweden’s NATO membership was not determined.
Before this, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasized that positive developments regarding the US F-16 agreement will play a role when the parliament discusses the protocol on Sweden’s NATO membership.
Previously in Turkey I thought about it On leaving NATO.