President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will host Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Sept. 25 and that he expected to conclude trade and military agreements.
“We are working on many Trade and Military Deals with the President, including the large scale purchase of Boeing aircraft, a major F-16 Deal, and a continuation of the F-35 talks, which we expect to conclude positively,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Erdogan last visited the White House in 2019 during Trump’s first term.
They had close personal bonds during Trump’s 2017–2021 term as president.
Turkey angered the Trump administration in 2019 by purchasing Russian S-400 missile defenses. In response, Washington canceled a planned sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey and ousted it from a joint production program for the planes….