US President Joe Biden said, on Monday, in statements to reporters about the content of a phone call, that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the issue of the possibility of the United States selling F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, and that, for his part, he requested Turkey’s approval of Sweden’s accession to NATO. Atlantic.
Biden commented: “We’ll talk more about that (Sweden’s NATO accession) next week.”
Ankara refused to accept Sweden’s accession to NATO because of the presence of Kurdish elements in Sweden who violently criticize the Turkish president.
And the Turkish presidency announced, on Monday evening, that President Biden congratulated his Turkish counterpart Erdogan on his re-election to a new term, without revealing the details of the call that Biden mentioned.
The presidency stated in a statement that the leaders of the two countries discussed bilateral issues and global challenges and agreed on a comprehensive development of relations between the United States and Turkey, according to the “Tass” agency.