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US and Turkey target each other in NATO meeting
Verbal clash during foreign affairs ministerial overshadows report on how alliance should adapt for 2030
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed Turkey during a virtual meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday, accusing Ankara of stoking tensions with…
- David M. Herszenhorn, Nektaria Stamouli ανδ Rym Momtaz
- Politico
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu fired back, accusing Pompeo of phoning European allies and urging them to gang up on Turkey, of siding blindly with Greece in…
Çavuşoğlu also accused the U.S. of backing Kurdish “terrorist organizations” in Syria, while Turkey fought the Islamic State, and…