Türkiye aims to maintain the good relationship it enjoyed with the United States during Donald Trump‘s first presidency into the second, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told an Ankara press conference on Monday.
Erdoğan said he hoped his “friendship” with Trump would continue, speaking alongside Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico shortly before Trump’s inauguration.
The Turkish president also offered his support in finding a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine. Türkiye, a NATO member, maintains relations with both Russia and Ukraine and has acted as a go-between in the past.