The US wants to bring Turkey “back into the fold,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday as he warned again about Ankara drifting away from its NATO partners.
Washington is concerned that recent arms deals with Russia and its recent incursion into northern Syria mean Turkey is slipping away from the military bloc. Esper’s comments came ahead of US President Donald Trump’s meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Wednesday.
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