Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sat down with NBC News' Keir Simmons about his views on the Israel-Gaza after addressing the U.N. General Assembly.
NEW YORK — Ukraine’s proposal for NATO membership is not a question “to be rushed,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told NBC News in an exclusive interview Tuesday, adding that relations between his country and Russia were “expanding.” Speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Erdoğan said that the U.S. and other members of the Western alliance “don’t want Ukraine to be a member state.” “These are not questions to be rushed,” he said.
Congress’ approval of a Turkish request to purchase 40 new F-16 fighter jets and kits to modernize the country’s fleet. Erdoğan has also been criticized in some quarters for accepting an invitation to attend the BRICS conference in Russia next month, signaling his openness to the bloc of developing countries led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. “Our relations with Russia are multi dimensional, political, economic, cultural, defense industry related,” Erdoğan said.
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