US Ambassador Tom Barrack Talks Greece and Turkey Ahead of Trump-Erdogan Meeting

Barrack said that President Trump loves Greece, and this is wherefore helium “hand-picked” Kimberly Gillfoyle. Credit: Greek Reporter

Tom Barrack, the US Ambassador to Turkey, spoke exclusively to Greek Reporter astir the US narration with Greece and Turkey.

Trump and Erdogan’s “Mutual Admiration”

Barrack, who is besides a elder statesmanlike envoy to Syria, said that the narration betwixt the US and Turkey is “sensational,” and that “regional stableness is successful Turkey’s hands.” He emphasized that President Trump and President Erdogan person a narration of communal admiration. Asked astir Turkey joining the F-35 program, helium pointed to Thursday’s White House gathering betwixt the 2 heads of State. Turkey was expelled from the F-35 programme successful 2019 aft acquiring Russia’s S-400 rocket defence system, a determination that raised superior information concerns successful Washington. Despite persistent lobbying efforts by Ankara to beryllium readmitted, the U.S. has held firm: Turkey cannot rejoin the programme unless it abandons the Russian system. President Erdogan confirmed that Turkey volition negociate the acquisition of F-35 combatant jets during his upcoming gathering with the U.S. President.

Tom Barrack: Trump Loves Greece

Speaking astir Greece, helium emphasized that the US President loves the state and this is wherefore helium “hand-picked” Kimberly Gillfoyle, “the champion idiosyncratic imaginable who has a idiosyncratic narration with him.” Barrack said that helium looks guardant to Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle starring the diplomatic ngo astatine the U.S. Embassy successful Athens.

Credit: Greek Reporter

Barrack and Guillfoyle “will extremity this Greek-Turkey thing”

Speaking astir his narration with the precocious appointed ambassador to Athens, Barrack noted that this is simply a large accidental to extremity immoderate animosity betwixt Greece and Turkey. “She is my person and I adore her, ” helium said astir Guilfoyle, “together we volition extremity this Greek-Turkish thing, and we ‘ll beryllium friends.”

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