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Sputnik: Erdogan Invites EU Leaders to Istanbul or Syrian Border Towns to Discuss Future of NATO
ANKARA (Sputnik) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday invited the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom to meet on the Turkish side of the Syrian border or in Istanbul to discuss outlooks for NATO.
"I received a call from Boris Johnson two days ago who suggested that the four of us… meet in London. I told him that Istanbul or the border cities of Sanliurfa and Gaziantep were better options", Erdogan was quoted by the Haberturk television channel as saying to a press pool aboard his plane.
The Turkish president said that the next opportunity to meet would be on the sidelines of the NATO summit in London from 3-4 December. The gathering will mark 70 years since the North Atlantic Organisation was created.
French President Emmanuel Macron last week called lack of NATO unity in criticising Turkey's Syria offensive a serious mistake. He said he together with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would meet with Erdogan in London in the coming weeks.
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WNU Editor: EU leaders are not going to make a trip to Istanbul to talk about the future of NATO. And they are definitely not going to go to the Syrian border.
2 comments:
EU advance teams are heading to a Syrian border town as we speak! There seems to be different realities for some people.
A foot in the door is always preferable no matter what the presumed end result will be.
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