U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan © Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
ADtv @JamaliahYusofyacob - Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama tidak mempunyai rancangan untuk mengadakan pertemuan peribadi dengan rakan sejawatannya dari Turki, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yang mengetuai ke Amerika Syarikat dengan lawatan rasmi minggu ini untuk mengambil bahagian dalam Sidang Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear di Washington.
Presiden Erdogan telah menjemput Obama untuk menyertai beliau pada perasmian sebuah masjid Turki yang dibiayai di Maryland, tetapi cadangan itu telah ditolak, lapor Wall Street Journal.
Sebaliknya, Presiden Erdogan dijangka mengadakan mesyuarat muka-ke-muka dengan Naib Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Joe Biden, seorang pegawai White House memberitahu WSJ.
Obama rejects private meeting with Turkey’s Erdogan - US media
American President Barack Obama has no plans for a personal meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is heading to the US on an official visit this week to take part in the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.
President Erdogan had invited Obama to join him at the inauguration of a Turkish-funded mosque in Maryland, but the proposal has been turned down, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Instead, President Erdogan is expected to hold a face-to-face meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden, a White House official told the WSJ.
'Demokrasi & kebebasan, kata-kata ini sama sekali tidak mempunyai nilai apa-apa lagi' - Erdogan '(Democracy & freedom, these words have absolutely no value any longer' - Erdogan) http://on.rt.com/77bw
Pegawai itu berkata hubungan antara presiden Amerika dan Turki adalah tetap, kerana mereka telah mengadakan pertemuan peribadi pada bulan November 2015 di pinggir sidang kemuncak G20 di Turki, dan mengadakan perbualan telefon pada bulan Februari.
"Presiden adalah dalam hubungan seperti biasa dengan beberapa pemimpin DUNIAa yang lain," kata pegawai pentadbiran kanan kepada media. "Apabila ia datang kepada [Sidang Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear], tidak ada yang teguh [2 hala] jadual, jadi ia bukan seolah-olah Erdogan sedang dikecualikan."
Perkhidmatan akhbar presiden Turki berkata ia tidak mempunyai maklumat mengenai pertemuan antara kedua-dua presiden dibatalkan, laporan RIA Novosti. Dilaporkan, pegawai Turki telah menyediakan Washington mendapatkan-bersama-sama kedua-dua pemimpin untuk beberapa bulan.
Sidang Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear, atau NSS 2016, bermula pada Mac 31. Presiden Erdogan akan tiba di Amerika Syarikat 2 hari sebelum itu, dan merancang untuk meninggalkan pada 2 April.
The official said that contact between the American and Turkish presidents is regular, since they had a personal meeting in November 2015 on the fringes of the G20 summit in Turkey, and held a phone conversation in February.
“The president has been in such regular contact with few other world leaders,” the senior administration official told the media. “When it comes to the [Nuclear Security Summit], there is not a robust [bilateral] schedule, so it’s not as if Erdogan is being excluded.”
The press service of the Turkish president said it has no information about a meeting between the two presidents being canceled, RIA Novosti reports. Reportedly, Turkish officials had been preparing a Washington get-together of the two leaders for months.
The Nuclear Security Summit, or NSS 2016, kicks off on March 31. President Erdogan will arrive in the US two days before that, and is planning to leave on April 2.
Keganasan di Turki: Apakah Erdogan main Washington? (Op-Edge) (Terror in Turkey: Is Erdogan playing Washington? (Op-Edge) http://on.rt.com/74u3
Hubungan antara Obama dan Erdogan telah memperhatikan dengan sungguh lebih baik, dengan Obama sebelum ini menamakan Erdogan kalangan sekutu terdekatnya. Kembali pada bulan Mei 2013, apabila ketika itu Perdana Menteri Erdogan dan keluarganya mengadakan lawatan rasmi ke Amerika Syarikat, dia adalah amat dialu-alukan, dengan Presiden Obama menjemput beliau untuk makan malam.
Itu adalah ketika Erdogan telah mengumumkan rundingan damai bersejarah dengan pejuang Kurdis dan memuji perkembangan selanjutnya hubungan ekonomi antara Turki dan Amerika Syarikat.
Relations between Obama and Erdogan have certainly seen better times, with Obama previously naming Erdogan among his closest allies. Back in May 2013, when then-Prime Minister Erdogan and his family paid an official visit to the US, he was most welcome, with President Obama inviting him for dinner.
That was at a time when Erdogan had announced historic peace talks with Kurdish fighters and praised the further development of the economic ties between Turkey and the US.
#Turkey Mempunyai 'persoalan' untuk menjawab selepas laporan RT pada # perdagangan minyak ISIS - UK Lord (#Turkey has ‘serious questions’ to answer after RT report on#ISIS oil trade - UK Lord) http://on.rt.com/783b
Namun pada tahun 2013 sudah, hubungan antara Ankara dan Washington menyaksikan perpecahan, pertama kerana tindakan keras polis ganas terhadap penunjuk perasaan di Gezi Park Istanbul, yang didakwa dilakukan oleh penyokong pembangkang ulama Turki Fethullah Gulen, yang telah mendapat perlindungan di Amerika Syarikat. Tindakan polis Turki menarik kritikan dari White House.
Kemudian pada bulan Disember 2013 datang penahanan berpuluh-puluh orang dalam siasatan politik rasuah yang didedahkan link ke keluarga Erdogan dan rakan terdekat.
Baru-baru ini, hubungan Turki dengan rakan yang rapat tegang oleh operasi tentera di tenggara dilancarkan terhadap militia bersenjata Kurdis, yang kemudian juga merebak ke jawatan Kurdis 'di negara jiran Syria dan Iraq.
Yet already in 2013, relations between Ankara and Washington witnessed discord, first because of a violent police crackdown against protesters in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, allegedly staged by supporters of dissident Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who had found refuge in the US. The actions of the Turkish police drew criticism from the White House.
Then in December 2013 came the arrests of dozens of people in a political-corruption probe that exposed links to Erdogan’s family and closest associates.
Most recently, Turkey’s relations with key allies were strained by its military operation in the southeast launched against Kurdish armed militias, which then also spread to Kurds’ positions in neighboring Syria and Iraq.
'Tiada IFS dan mencari-cari alasan': Turkey menuntut sokongan terhadap Amerika Syarikat 'pengganas Kurdis' ‘(No ifs and buts’: Turkey demands US support against ‘Kurdish terrorists)’ http://on.rt.com/7525
Tindakan keras terhadap pengkritik dalaman kerajaan Erdogan juga telah kewujudan kebebasan asas bersuara dan akhbar di Turki di bawah soalan.
Kembali pada bulan Januari, apabila Naib Presiden Joe Biden melawat Istanbul, beliau telah bertemu dengan wartawan Turki mengkritik Presiden Erdogan - satu langkah yang menyebabkan keresahan di kalangan pemimpin Turki dan sekutu-sekutunya.
The crackdown against internal critics of the Erdogan government has also put the existence of basic freedom of speech and press in Turkey under question.
Back in January, when Vice President Joe Biden visited Istanbul, he met with Turkish journalists critical of President Erdogan – a move that caused consternation among the Turkish leader and his allies.
Obama menyuarakan sokongan untuk Erdogan terhadap Parti Pekerja Kurdistan (Obama voiced support for Erdogan against Kurdistan Workers’ Party) http://on.rt.com/74zu
Minggu lepas seorang pembantu kanan kepada Presiden Erdogan berkata, Turki tidak memerlukan "Nasihat luar" dari Washington apabila ia datang kepada politik dalaman. "Ini adalah tingkah laku ‘big brother’ memberi pelajaran. Kami memerlukan persahabatan, "katanya.
Bagi Amerika Syarikat, Turki kekal sebagai sekutu utama dalam memperjuangkan jihadis di Syria dan Iraq, dengan Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat menggunakan lapangan terbang udara tentera Turki untuk operasi menentang Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL).
Last week a senior aide to President Erdogan said Turkey needs no “external advice” from Washington when it comes to internal politics. “This is the behavior of a big brother giving lessons. We need friendship,” he stressed.
For the US, Turkey remains a key ally in fighting jihadists in Syria and Iraq, with the US Air Force using Turkish military airfields for operations against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
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