Turkey, US to hold talks on regional, bilateral issues
High-level Turkish and American diplomats will hold meetings in Washington Monday and Tuesday to exchange views about bilateral, regional and global issues, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on June 7.
It informed that undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry Feridun SinirlioÄlu will pay a working visit to the United States where he will meet officials from the State Department, the National Security Council and other relevant institutions. It did not detail issues SinirlioÄlu would raise during his talks and his potential interlocutors in Washington.
Among issues that could be on the table are Syria crisis and recent signs of cooperation between Ankara and Washington over the foreign jihadists especially after Turkey declared al-Nusra a terrorist organization; the developments in Iraq and Turkeyâs decision to release the Iraqi oil in Ceyhan without Baghdadâs consent; the Cyprus talks after vice President Joe Bidenâs historic trip to the island and the ongoing tension between the West and Russia over Ukraine.
U.S. Ambassador to Ankara, Francis Ricciardone, said the areas the two countries are cooperating on âUkraine, Syria, Iraq, Iran in the context of nuclear program, Cyprus question and the normalization in Turkish-Israeli relationsâ. He said the work in those fields was being carried out with the means of âdiplomacy, law enforcement [for example Turkeyâs borders], intelligence and security.â The ambassador underlined that they âwould not give details on intelligenceâ matters, but âimportant national security cooperationâ was âgoing on.â
SinirlioÄluâs visit to the U.S. is seen as important opportunity for the two...
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