US risks 'losing a good friend', Erdogan warns before assembly Biden
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned that america risked "losing a important friend" if it attempts to corner his region, speaking fourteen days before his first ending up in US counterpart Joe Biden.
Already tense, relations between the two NATO states have even more deteriorated since Biden replaced Erdogan's ally Donald Trump on January, with the new president making a spot of highlighting Turkey's dire individual rights record.
When asked about Ankara-Washington relations, Erdogan said within an interview with Turkish talk about broadcaster TRT about Tuesday that "those that part the Republic of Turkey will eventually lose a important friend."
Erdogan's combative stance shows up ahead of the first meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of a good NATO summit in Brussels on June 14.
Biden was in zero rush to speak with the Turkish leader after taking office, waiting 90 days before calling Erdogan found in April.
That phone was also on the eve of Biden's historic decision to recognise the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman empire during World War I, a maneuver that outraged Turkey which rejects that term.
"What is usually the reason behind our tensions (with the US)? The so-called Armenian genocide," Erdogan explained on Tuesday.
"Don't have you possess any other complications to deal with rather than advocating for Armenia?"
He likewise listed several issues that contain strained relations since 2016, including US support for Kurdish militias in Syria that Turkey deems "terrorists."
"If america is definitely our ally, should they area with the terrorists or perhaps around? Unfortunately, they continue steadily to support the terrorists," he said.
Erdogan had previously indicated he designed to mend ties with Biden, the other day saying their meeting is a "harbinger of a new era" found in US-Turkey relations.
On Tuesday Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, said he has always were able to work with the individual in the White House "whether he is a Republican or a Democract." - AFP
