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Trump Scheduled to Meet Erdogan, Zelenskiy and Syrian Leader at NATO Summit in Turkey
U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive Tuesday in Turkey for a NATO summit that opens with a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. He will also meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the White House said.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Turkey for a NATO summit. His first meeting will be with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during the visit.
He will also hold a news conference while in Turkey, the White House said. A senior U.S. official said the session with Zelenskiy will focus on how to end the war in Ukraine. The official stated that the battlefield has clearly frozen over the last couple of months and neither side is making a lot of progress.
The president feels a real sense of urgency to try to bring this to a stop, the official added. Trump will urge NATO allies to increase their defense spending during the summit. Defense-related deals worth billions of dollars will be announced, the official said.
On Saturday, July 4, Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for 90 minutes and offered to help find a solution to the Ukraine war, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said. Zelenskiy last month called for a one-on-one meeting with Putin, but the Kremlin leader refused. Russia has said any solution must include Moscow assuming full control over Ukraine's Donbas region.
Ukraine rejects that assertion. The senior U.S. official said Trump would likely follow up with Putin after talking to Zelenskiy.
