Obama’s Meeting with Erdogan: “Minor Uptick” in U.S.-Turkey Relations

By Soner Cagaptay

Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism. 

President Barack Obama and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met this weekend for the first time since the July 15 failed coup attempt.

“This is the first opportunity that I’ve had to meet face to face with President Erdogan since the terrible attempted coup,” Obama said during their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hangzhou, China. “We’re glad you’re here, safe, and that we are able to continue to work together.”

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