The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has returned to harshly criticize the US for supporting the Syrian Kurdish independence organization Ypg and has declared that he expects to talk face to face with the American president Joe Biden, with whom a meeting is scheduled in Rome, on the occasion of the next G20. “What will the Americans do in Syria and their support for Ypg-Pkk? We will talk about it directly. We will cover all topics, military, political, economic and commercial relations. For example, the F-35s, for which we paid 1.4 billion dollars that we don’t know what happened to them, ”said the president after returning from a meeting in Sochi with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin.
The Turkish president, therefore, harshly criticized the American military coordinator in Syria, Brett McGurk: “Walk hand in hand with terrorists.” And then he reiterated: “No steps backwards on the S-400s – according to Washington incompatible with NATO systems – The installation process goes on, steps backwards are not even in question”.
Excellent relations with Russia
Finally, Erdogan underlined the “excellent economic and commercial relations between the two countries”, underlining that the collaboration in the defense industry will be extended to submarines and airplanes: “We had the opportunity to talk about the construction of aircraft, boats and submarines, we discussed in detail a future collaboration and the next steps to be taken ». And he also spoke of the possibility that the Russian company Rosatom will build two more nuclear plants in addition to the one already under construction in Akkuyu, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
The role of Turkey on climate change
Ankara “will take a leading role in the fight against climate change at a global level” which represents a “reality that millions of people will have to face more and more in the coming years”, Erdogan promised. Turkey remained among the few signatories to the document that has not yet ratified it, along with Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Yemen.