Attractions are the look at the US president’s meeting Donald Trump with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoganon the evening of Thursday 25.09.2025.
Among the issues discussed, such as the F-35s and the lifting of US sanctions in Turkey, Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also referred to Halki Theological School.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised that Turkey would do it on the issue of reopening the Halki Theological School, during his meeting with the White House with US President Donald Trump.
“We will do what it matters to us,” said the Turkish President, referring to the issue of the Halki School, stressing that he will discuss the issue with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
“I will discuss the issue when I return with Bartholomew,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, before the journalists, shortly before the two presidents’ meeting began. Donald Trump’s response to this statement by his Turkish counterpart was: “The Greek Orthodox Church was here (at the White House) and would really like to have some help.”
The Turkish president also spoke about the F-35 fighters, from the program of which Ankara was eliminated due to the Russia market of the S-400 air defense system, as well as the supply of young people and modernization of the existing Turkish F-16 fighter fleet. “I believe that today we will have the opportunity to discuss the issue of the F-35 and F-16 in detail, as well as the issue of Halk Bank,” the Turkish state bank that has a lawsuit with US justice, accused of violating sanctions on Iran.
Donald Trump also said, answering a question, that if the meeting with Mr Erdogan is good “we can get away immediately” the Caatsa sanctions “