Trump praises Erdoğan, calls NATO summit successful
U.S. President Donald Trump on July 8 praised President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and described the NATO summit in Ankara as “very successful” as the two-day gathering came to an end.
“We just concluded a very successful NATO summit here in Türkiye,” Trump told reporters in the Turkish capital.
Trump thanked Erdoğan for hosting the summit and called the Turkish president “a great leader.”
“I want to thank President Erdoğan, who’s really a great man,” Trump said. “He’s a friend of mine, been a friend of mine for a long time.”
