Erdogan's meeting with Trump goes off well

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters on his flight back from Washington to Ankara that his meeting with US President Donald Trump had gone off well. He explained as to why he and Trump had been able to strike a rapport. He told reporters that Trump and he preferred to voice their views in a “straight and neat way”.

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Erdogan viewed Turkey-US relations in purely business terms. He said, “First and foremost, we discussed the steps we can take for strengthening our trade and investment ties based on our mutual interests. We have also exchanged views on steps for facilitating our bilateral trade including reviewing tariffs, so that we can reach our goal of $100 billion trade volume.”

Meanwhile, Turkey and the US signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on civil nuclear energy cooperation. Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar signed the MoU on Strategic Civilian Nuclear Cooperation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Bayraktar wrote on the social media platform NSosyal: “I hope the work to be carried out within the scope of the agreement will produce mutual benefits for both countries in the coming period.”