{"id":26848,"date":"2018-12-25T06:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2018-12-25T06:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T06:22:17","slug":"trump-accepts-erdogans-invitation-to-visit-turkey-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26848","title":{"rendered":"Trump ‘accepts Erdogan’s invitation’ to visit Turkey in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation by his Turkish counterpart,\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdogan,<\/span> to visit the country, according to a spokesperson for Turkey’s leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting on Monday in the Turkish capital, Ankara, Ibrahim Kalin said Trump wants to make the trip in 2019 but a date has not been set.<\/p>\n

The White House confirmed the invitation for Trump to visit next year, adding: “While nothing definite is being planned, the president is open to a potential meeting in the future.”<\/p>\n

Trump hosted<\/a> Erdogan at the White House in May last year.<\/p>\n

Kalin said Erdogan extended the invitation during a weekend phone call between the presidents on the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, which was announced last week by Trump.<\/p>\n

Syria withdrawal<\/h2>\n

The presidential spokesperson also said that a US military delegation will visit Turkey this week to hold talks about the issue.<\/p>\n

“They will discuss how to coordinate (the withdrawal) with their counterparts,” Kalin told the news conference.<\/p>\n

Trump on Sunday wrote on Twitter that he had a “long and productive” call with Erdogan in which they discussed “the slow & highly coordinated” pullout of US military personnel.<\/p>\n

“We discussed ISIS, our mutual involvement in Syria, and the slow and highly coordinated pullout of US troops from the area,” Trump said in a tweet on Sunday, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group. “After many years they are coming home.”<\/p>\n

Trump said he and Erdogan also discussed “heavily expanded” trade between the US and Turkey after the two NATO allies’ relationship went into a tailspin in recent months over a number of issues.<\/p>\n

Erdogan said in a separate tweet: “I had a productive call with (Donald Trump) today, in which we agreed to strengthen our coordination on a range of issues, including our trade relations and the developments in Syria.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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