United States President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to cease shopping for Russian oil to push Moscow to finish the warfare in Ukraine.“I want to have him cease shopping for any oil from Russia whereas Russia continues this rampage in opposition to Ukraine. They usually’ve been combating and misplaced tens of millions of lives already, and for what? For what?” Trump advised reporters alongside visiting Erdogan within the Oval Workplace.That is one other try and push Western allies to cease their purchases of Russian crude and enhance stress on Vladimir Putin. Trump and Erdogan’s assembly got here because the Republican chief contemplating to elevate the US authorities’s maintain on gross sales of superior fighter jets to Ankara. The US president had earlier issued an open letter to Nato members. “I’m able to do main sanctions on Russia when all Nato Nations have agreed, and began, to do the identical factor, and when all Nato Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA,” Trump wrote in a letter he shared on Fact social, a platform he owns. “The acquisition of Russian oil, by some, has been stunning! It vastly weakens your negotiating place, and bargaining energy, over Russia”, he additional added.Requested by a reporter if Trump goes to “undo” what he referred to as “silly choices” of the Biden administration to not promote Patriot missiles to Turkey, the US president responds: “we will focus on that”. “I feel he’ll achieve success in shopping for the issues he’d like to purchase” says Trump of Erdogan, referencing F-35 and F-16 jets. “He wants sure issues and I want sure issues” the president continues, “and we will come to a conclusion”.Turkey has confronted US sanctions since 2020 over its buy and deployment of Russian-made S-400 anti-aircraft missiles, a 2017 deal that led to Ankara’s elimination from the F-35 programme in 2019.Trump, within the Oval workplace, referred to as Erdogan “robust man” and mentioned that he’s a man who’s extremely opinionated. “Often I do not like opinionated folks, however I all the time like this one,” he added.
