NNA - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his American counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on May 9, a Turkish official confirmed to Agence France-Presse on Friday.
This will be the first meeting between the two presidents in the White House. In January, the Biden administration agreed to sell F-16 fighters to Turkey for $23 billion, following Ankara’s ratification of Sweden’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Some analysts also linked Ankara's delay in ratification to Erdogan's anger at Washington due to its support for Israel and the way it carried out the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Erdogan has become one of the harshest critics in the Islamic world of Israel's devastating response to the unprecedented attack by Hamas inside the Hebrew state on October 7.
The Turkish President compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and accused the United States of sponsoring the "genocide" of the Palestinians.
