F-35 deal, CAATSA Sanctions, Iran War & more: Trump-Erdogan’s full bilateral in Ankara NATO Summit

[0:00] First of all, I would like to be here on the occasion of the NATO summit. I would like to welcome my valuable friend Mr. President Trump who has participated here today with us and added strength to the summit that we are convening for. [0:38] And I would like to express how important this summit is that we are here gathering for. [0:52] NATO Liderler Zirvesi'nin bugün Ankara'da yapılıyor olması ve tüm liderlerin şu anda ülkemizde bir araya gelmesi, [1:10] yarın değerli dostum Sayın Trump'la birlikte olması bizlere ayrı bir güç katacaktır. [1:19] The fact that we are convening here today for the NATO Ankara summit and that all the leaders are arriving and how with the presence of President Trump, [1:28] which will be adding might and strength to our summit. [1:33] Kendilerine tekrar hoş geldiniz diyor. [1:37] Once again I would like to say welcome Mr. President. [1:42] Well, I want to thank you very much. As everybody knows, it's been very much reported. We are great friends. [1:50] The president has done an incredible job just landing at the airport to see such a beautiful airport and to have a building named after me. [1:59] I was very happy about that. That was very nice. [2:02] The airport is absolutely beautiful. The roads coming in were brand new and beautiful. [2:08] And you've been a great leader and a respected leader all over the world. [2:13] And we really do. We have we've had right from the beginning good chemistry. [2:17] We've had a very special relationship. Turkey has become under the president a very powerful country militarily. [2:27] People know people don't know how powerful actually. And they have a lot of our equipment and they have a lot of great soldiers. [2:36] And they really somebody to be reckoned with. And the nice part is that because of the relationship that we have, it's all gone very well. [2:48] I just want to say that I have a lot of respect for the president. And I think it's really to the benefit of both countries. [2:58] We're going to be talking today about trade. We're going to be talking about other things having to do with the military. [3:04] Lots of different things. Probably will mention Iran, where we have essentially decimated their military. [3:11] They cannot have a nuclear weapon. And we have some very good discussions. But we do a lot of trade with Turkey. [3:19] We make great things and they make great things. And we we've had a very, very set a very big impact on both of our countries. [3:27] So I just want to tell you that it's an honor to be with you. And we're going to have a lot of good meetings. [3:35] We're going to have good dinners, good food. We're going to have a good time. But mostly we're going to have a lot of work. [3:40] And we're going to do good things for our countries. Thank you very much, Mr. President. [3:45] Thank you. [3:47] Thank you very much. [4:16] Mr. President, are you going to sell F-35s to Turkey? And what about the legal restrictions? [4:25] Well, it's a decision we're going to make. We have a very good relationship. [4:32] I would think that many people, I can tell you, many people, including the people sitting right here, thinks, you know, why wouldn't we do that? [4:40] We have a better relationship with Turkey and Turkey's been in many ways much more loyal than other countries that we think would be loyal. [4:47] So, yeah, it's something certainly we would consider. It's a great plane. It's the best, currently the best plane by far. And it's certainly something we will consider. Yeah. Yes. Daniel, please. [5:01] You never know why a relationship is special. Some people you get along with and some people you don't. Sometimes you get along with the toughest people like him. [5:28] And sometimes you don't get along with the weakest, most pathetic people. You just don't get along. Maybe you don't respect them. But I, you know, from from the day we met, we got along. [5:42] We had a pastors. I remember his name was Pastor Brunson and was a very big thing. And it was a very traumatic. [5:53] He was sentenced to a long term prison sentence. And I felt he was innocent. And I called other people called. They got nowhere. I called the president and he released him immediately. [6:05] It was something that the evangelical community will never forget because he was a good man, Pastor Brunson. [6:12] So, you know, just things like that. We just have always it's always worked out. And I think it's been from the very beginning, from the first moment. [6:21] This just I said it before. It's a it's a chemistry that works between us. There are those that I don't have a good chemistry with. [6:28] I will tell you that. And we work that out, too. Say it are further troop drawdowns in Europe, likely. [6:44] And are you satisfied with the progress that NATO allies? Well, we're going to see. I was very disappointed with NATO. [6:49] And frankly, if it weren't held in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong leader, a very strong person, it's possible that I wouldn't have attended. [7:03] I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he's gone all out. [7:07] It was a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey or any place else. It's a big thing. [7:11] But we weren't treated well because we did something in Iran. We don't need anybody's help. [7:18] I didn't even want the help. But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there. [7:24] And we've invested trillions of dollars in NATO. Why? To protect European countries and others, Canada, et cetera. [7:35] But to protect people, countries from generally speaking, it used to be the Soviet Union. [7:40] Now it's Russia. And I say that's fine. But you would think that they'd be very willing to do something to help us. [7:50] And they really weren't. In the case of the United Kingdom, the prime minister, I guess he's no longer there, maybe because of this. [7:59] It was a very unpopular thing he did. He said, no, we'll help after the war is over. [8:05] I said, I don't need that kind of help. We didn't need any help at all. And in a way, I was testing people. [8:10] I was testing to see whether or not they'd be there. Because I've long said that we helped them, but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us. [8:17] And Italy turned us down. And Germany turned us down. And France turned us down. And it's okay. [8:25] But, you know, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars? And they're not there for us. We've always been there for them. [8:34] And Turkey, Turkey, Suriye arasında, Turkey'de. Efendim? [8:44] Robert Kuti, Iran'daki savaşın sona erdirilmesi için oldukça çaba sarf ettiniz. [8:50] Müzakere süreci devam ediyor. Ancak nihayi bir anlaşma noktasına gelinmiş değil. [8:54] Bundan sonraki süreçte Türkiye nasıl adım atacak İran ve ABD arasındaki müzakere sürecinin olumlu bir şekilde neticelenmesi için? [9:02] Bu süreçte yine aynı şekilde bizler İran-Amerika ilişkilerini nasıl bir düzleme kavuştururuz, onun gayreti içerisindeyiz. [9:17] Elimizden geleni yapmak suretiyle dünya barışına bir adım atalım diye gerek şahsım gerek arkadaşlarım hep birlikte çalışıyoruz, çalışacağız. [9:32] Gazze'ye sormak isterim ben sizlere. 80 bine yakın insan hayatını kaybetti Gazze'de. Çok büyük bir yıkım var. [9:41] Ateşkes sağlandı ama yerler bu ihlaleler devam ediyor. [9:44] Ateşkes ihlalelerinin önlenmesi için, insani yardımların Gazze'ye girebilmesi için, [9:48] ayrıca Gazze'nin yeniden inşa edilebilmesi için, önümüzdeki süreçte ortak atabileceğiniz adımları değerlendirecek misiniz muhatabınızda? [9:55] Müsaade buyururlarsa kendisinin de bu konudaki fikirlerini almak isteriz. Teşekkür ederiz. [10:00] Özellikle Gazze konusunda, tabii değerli dostumla bunları da konuşarak, özellikle bu bölgedeki barışı sağlama için bu liderler zirvesini çok çok önemsiyoruz. [10:20] Ve bu liderler zirvesinden aynı şekilde bir kararın çıkmasını da hayra yorumluyoruz. [10:30] Ve bunun olabileceğine de ben ihtimal veriyorum. [10:35] Efendim, Türkiye ABD ilişkilerinin geliştiği bir dönemi gözlemliyoruz. [10:39] İki bin yirmi beş yılında, geçen yıl Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'ne yaptığınız ziyarette önemli ticari anlaşmalar da imzalandı. [10:47] Suriye konusunda Türkiye'nin önemli bir aktör olduğunu söylemişti Sayın ABD Başkanı. [10:53] Şimdi yeni dönemde gelmeden önce de Sayın Trump bir sürprizle geliyorum ifadesini kullandı. [10:59] F-35'i Kağan savaş uçaklarının motorlarını konuştuk. [11:02] Acaba gündeme gelebilir mi? [11:04] Şeklinde. [11:05] Siz bu sürprizin ne olduğunu düşünüyorsunuz? [11:08] Türkiye, bugünkü görüşmelerden sonra istediğini alabilecektim. [11:12] Teşekkür ederim. [11:13] Tabii F-35 konusu biliyorsunuz bizim için yeni bir konu değil. [11:18] Ve bunu bizler Amerika'yla daha önce de görüştük. [11:24] Ve biz beş uçağı da sözünü aldık. [11:34] Ve Sayın Trump'ın bu konuda bize ayrıca sözü var. [11:42] Ve şimdi de bu liderler zirvesinde yapacağımız görüşmelerde F-35'le ilgili kendilerinden bu daha önce aldığımız sözün [11:56] ben geleceğe yönelik olumlu şekilde test ettiğimizi biliyorum. [12:05] Ve bu konuda da Sayın Trump her zaman sözünün arkasındadır. [12:12] Burada yine inşallah F-35 konusunda bu liderler zirvesinden hayırlı bir karar çıkacağına inanıyorum. [12:32] What does that mean? [12:37] Is that not part of the deal? [12:38] Third party? [12:39] What is the third? [12:40] With respect to what? [12:41] There's our concerns about the Russian missile defense systems. [12:44] Do you have those concerns about this system? [12:46] Are they going to ask it? [12:47] I have no concerns at all about anything. [12:49] I mean, he's a leader of a country that he's made a much better country, much more powerful country. [12:56] You see it. [12:57] I mean, it's beautiful. [12:58] You get off. [12:59] The roads are beautiful. [13:00] It's an amazing thing. [13:01] Now, I have no concerns about anything having to do with Turkey. [13:05] The relationship, I would say the relationship with Turkey right now is better probably than [13:09] it's ever been. [13:10] It was good in my first four years. [13:11] But I think now it's probably even better than that if that's possible. [13:15] Sir, U.S. military and Turkish military constitute a really strong and large military base for [13:27] NATO. [13:28] Are we expecting further defense cooperation out of this bilateral meeting, out of this [13:32] NATO summit here in Ankara? [13:33] Well, we're going to find out when I go there. [13:35] We're going to find out. [13:36] We're going to be having meetings. [13:38] I'm very friendly with many of the leaders. [13:40] Some of them are new. [13:41] We don't know them. [13:42] But, you know, I've been doing this for now sort of a long time. [13:45] If you count the four years where we had a rigged election, you know, it was very much [13:51] into politics then too. [13:53] But I spent the first four years, I spent four years in a little different state. [13:59] And then we've had an amazing, probably the best year maybe ever had by an American president. [14:07] When you look at the economy, we have the greatest economy we've ever had. [14:11] We have $19 trillion, $19.2 trillion to be exact, being invested in the United States. [14:18] That's seven or eight times more than it's ever happened. [14:21] It's a world record, not just a U.S. record. [14:25] And I just read where, in fact, coming over, I was just given I was in the car with those [14:31] beautiful horses, those great riders, those great soldiers. [14:34] And it came over the wires that Toyota is moving out of Mexico into the United States [14:42] and building one of the biggest truck and car plants ever built. [14:47] It's amazing. [14:48] That's what tariffs do, properly used. [14:50] And so we've never had a more exceptional economy or potential economy. [14:57] There's never been anything like it. [14:59] Under the last administration, they did much less than a trillion dollars of investment [15:04] coming in. [15:05] And we're at $19.2 trillion in actually the first 12 months because that's where it's, [15:11] you know, really so there are a year and a half. [15:14] So that number is now substantially higher. [15:16] But $19.2 trillion, Scott, for a period of 12 months, nobody's ever seen anything like that. [15:23] So we have by far the greatest economy. [15:26] We have more jobs right now in the United States than ever before. [15:30] And we have a great relationship with some countries on trade. [15:34] And Turkey happens to be one of them. [15:36] I'm sorry. [15:37] I'm sorry. [15:40] Thank you very much. [15:42] Thank you very much. [15:43] Sayın Sertürsat'ta dünya beşten büyüktür. [15:44] Daha acyip bir dünya mümkün zutuyorsunuz. [15:46] Bugün konumuz Sayın Trump ABD Başkanı. [15:49] Onun da zaman zaman küresel sistemin mevcut durumuna ilişkin eleştirilini biliyoruz. [15:56] NATO'nun iki en büyük askeri gücü olarak bu noktada bu eleştiriler doğrultusunda ortak bir adım, [16:02] ortak süreçte söz konusu olabilir. [16:09] NATO'da iki önemli ülke olarak gerek Amerika gerekse Türkiye bizler bu liderler zirvesinden de dayanışma içerisinde güçlü bir çıkışı sağlayacağız ve bunu da başaracağımıza inanıyoruz. [16:31] Dışişleri Bakanları'na Antalya Diplomasi Forumunda bir araya getirdiniz. [16:44] İstanbul'da çok önemli müzakereler yürüttünüz. [16:47] Bu zirve kapsamında da Sayın Trump'ın Sayın Zelenski ile görüşeceğini biliyoruz. [16:52] Nihai aşama olarak hangi noktadayız? [16:54] Savaşın sonlanması konusundaki iki kuşatla ilişkin değerlendirmeniz nedir? [16:58] Teşekkürler. [16:59] Dışişleri Bakanlarımız bir araya geldiler. [17:03] İstanbul'un mümkün müzakere sürecini de... [17:05] Is that for me? [17:06] Are you asking me or are you asking the president? [17:09] The president yes. [17:14] Biz Rusya Ukrayna arasındaki bu gelişmeleri de yine değerli dostumla burada paylaşacağız, görüşeceğiz ve ona göre de adımlarımızı atacağız. [17:28] Televizyon kanalından Hatice Kübrabağ benim sorum da aslında az önce biraz yanıtladınız ama Türkiye'nin beşinci nesil uçağı Kaan motorları için F-110 motorlarından söz edeceğiz. [17:41] Aynı zamanda kassa yaptırımları ve bu bağlamda da F-35 alımı ile ilgili aslında bu görüşmeden bir somut sonuç bekleyebilir miyiz onu merak ediyoruz. [17:51] Ben bunu daha önce değerli dostumla görüştüm ve Kaan'la ilgili onun motorları noktasında bu liderler zirvesinde bu görüşmeyi değerli dostumla tekrar bir araya geldik. [18:12] Onu görüşeceğiz ve inanıyorum ki bununla ilgili bize verdiği müjdeyi burada da tekrar edecektir ve bu müjdeyle de herhalde liderler zirvesinde kendisine teşekkür edeceğiz. [18:33] You know, I might add that Turkey bought planes. It's the best plane. But they bought planes from the United States. And when you buy a plane from the United States, if there's engine rehab and other things that are done to engines, it's various things that happen, including just maintenance. [18:58] I think we have an obligation to maintain engines and help them maintain engines. When you buy a plane from us, what are we going to do to say you're buying a plane if if the engine needs work or if the engine has to be rehabilitated or even upgraded somewhat. [19:15] But I think we have an obligation to do that. What are you going to do? Say I'm not going to do that. Look, Turkey's been I know, you know, a lot of people don't agree, although I think with time they're starting to. Turkey has been a great ally for us. [19:29] Turkey has been Turkey could have gone on the side. They know Iran very well and they know the problems with Iran, but they've been very instrumental, along with a couple of other countries of helping. [19:42] They could have gotten into the fight. You know, I hear some people saying about their relationship with Israel. They could have gotten into the fight. They're a very powerful military nation. They didn't do that. [19:54] Maybe they didn't do that because of me, but they could have gotten into the into the fight on the other side. They are a nation that's been very, very good. [20:06] And I can only I can speak for myself as president. They've been extraordinary in many ways with respect to our relationship, including trying to end the war with Iran or whatever you call it. [20:19] It's not even a war. It's a military operation. It's a denuclearization. That's really what it is of Iran, because I don't think he wants to see them have a nuclear weapon either. [20:30] I'm pretty sure of that. In fact, I'm totally sure of that. So but when they buy a product from us, whether it's a plane or anything else, when it's time for maintenance, I think we have don't we have an obligation to help them? [20:43] What are we going to do? Say we're not going to we're not going to let you use the product that you spent a lot of money in buying. [20:48] And especially when it's been somebody that, frankly, has been more helpful to the United States than many other more traditional countries. [21:00] I do. I do. I had a very good talk with President Putin, who, by the way, has a lot of respect for President Erdogan, a lot of respect for him. [21:18] We had a long talk yesterday. It lasted a long time. And I also spoke with President Zelensky right after that. [21:26] I think they both want to make a deal. It's too bad it took so long. But I think there's going to be something's going to come out. [21:34] And the president's also helping us with that. But I think there's something, you know, I settled eight wars and I think we're going to be settling a nine. [21:43] It doesn't seem likely now, but sometimes when with war, I see when it's least likely, that's when it happens. [21:51] I had a very good talk with President Putin. I had a very good talk with I would say as a combination. [21:55] A lot of times I'd do well with Putin and Zelensky would be a problem or vice versa. [22:01] Zelensky would be great and Putin would be. They both want to get it settled now more than that. [22:08] That's all I do in my life is deals. I know deals. And I think they are going to I think we're going to get it settled, hopefully soon. [22:18] Last month, 35,000 mostly soldiers died. The month before that, it was 24,000. [22:26] The month before that, it was 27,000. And the month before that, it was 29,000. [22:31] But last month, it was 35,000 young soldiers, mostly soldiers died. And that's crazy. [22:39] We're going to say it. [23:20] I can tell you we're going to be taking the sanctions off. OK, I don't want him to waste his time answering that question because we're working very closely with Marco Rubio, very famous man, great secretary of state. [23:47] And with Scott Bassett and with Pete and everybody else, we're going to be taking the sanctions off. [23:52] It's time to do that. OK, we don't want to sanction friends. [24:00] It's very simple. There's plenty of people we can sanction and we are saying we don't want to sanction friends. [24:06] And because of the president, you know, we have a very good relationship with the new leader of Syria and he's done an amazing job in a year and a half. [24:16] He's pulled the whole country together and I have a very great relationship with him. [24:20] And somebody said, well, he's pretty rough to put him there. [24:23] I approved him along with the president. [24:25] We were the two that really wanted him and he's done a great job. [24:29] He's done a great job. He's pulled it together. [24:32] Not an easy job. [24:38] Yesterday, with respect to Prime Minister Maloney, on that two social posts with the restraining order. [24:43] Oh, I don't know. I think she's a nice person, actually. [24:45] But we've had a good week. We had a bad relationship. [24:48] It became a little bad because she refused to help us. [24:52] Again, I didn't put a heavy press on her, but she refused to get involved with the Hormone Strait. [24:59] Or you could also say just Iran. [25:02] She refused to get involved. [25:03] So it soured my relationship with her a little bit. [25:07] But I like her. I think she's a nice person, actually. [25:09] But I think she made a mistake. [25:11] You know, they get a lot of their oil from we don't get any of our we have a lot of oil. [25:15] The United States has more oil than anybody. [25:18] And when you add Venezuela to it, it's like we have far more oil than any. [25:23] We don't need the Straits. [25:24] We do this because we think it's an important thing to do. [25:26] But she just wasn't there for us. [25:31] And I wasn't happy about that. [25:33] You could imagine. I wasn't happy about that. [25:35] Why do you think that? What conditions have changed? [25:43] Did Putin seem... [25:44] With what? [25:45] Ukraine. Did Putin seem open to any concessions that he had... [25:48] Never changed. [25:49] I just don't want him killing people. [25:51] You know, it doesn't affect the United States. [25:54] When Biden was here, he gave them hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment. [25:58] Now I sell the equipment for, you know, fair price, the full price. [26:03] And I sell it not to Ukraine. [26:05] I sell it to the European Union. [26:06] They pay us. [26:08] But with me, it's not anything to do other than I'd like to save lives. [26:12] You have 25, 35, 30. [26:17] One time it hit 41,000 a month souls. [26:21] They're dead. [26:23] They leave their mother in Ukraine. [26:26] They leave their mother and father in Russia, Ukraine. [26:29] They wave goodbye. [26:30] And a week later, they're dead. [26:33] It's crazy. [26:35] And I would like to see. [26:36] It doesn't affect us. [26:37] It's really, you know, it's far away. [26:40] It affects Europe much more. [26:42] We're there to help Europe. [26:44] But it doesn't affect the United States. [26:46] We have an ocean in between. [26:47] But, you know, it's just I can't stand watching what's happening. [26:54] I've seen the pictures of those battlefields. [26:56] And it's a drone war. [26:58] It's a war of drones. [26:59] It's a whole new technology. [27:01] And we're actually the leader in drones now. [27:03] We have the most sophisticated drones. [27:05] But people wouldn't believe how violent it is. [27:09] And I've seen the battlefields. [27:10] They send me pictures. [27:11] I actually want to say, don't send them to me. [27:14] Pete, this man right here sends me pictures. [27:17] Pete Hexeth. [27:18] And I said, Pete, you know what? [27:21] It doesn't help to look. [27:22] I've never seen anything like it. [27:23] It's carnage. [27:25] And it should stop. [27:38] I get along very well with both. [27:40] And we're going to get it settled. [27:42] And President Erdogan is helping us get it settled. [27:45] As he's helping with Iran. [27:54] With respect to what? [27:57] Well, that's what hurt my relationship with NATO. [28:01] Because Greenland doesn't help Denmark. [28:05] Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland. [28:08] But it's an important part for the United States. [28:12] And it's surrounded by China ships and Russian ships. [28:16] And that's not going to happen. [28:17] The ships is not going to happen. [28:20] It was Greenland that, and it continues to be, that should be controlled by the United States, [28:26] not by Denmark. [28:27] And when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all the money we spend to help them with [28:31] Russia, and we don't have to spend any money, we could remove all of our soldiers out of [28:37] Europe. [28:38] Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago. [28:43] A lot different, much different. [28:45] It's a much different, and they better be careful with immigration and energy. [28:50] If they're not careful with those two things, you're not going to have a Europe anymore. [28:55] Okay, thank you very much, everybody.