Washington, DC – Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met today in Washington with Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal.
According to the Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price “they reaffirmed the strategic relationship between Turkey and the United States and discussed the two countries’ many areas of bilateral cooperation.
Deputy Secretary Sherman thanked Deputy Foreign Minister Onal for Turkey’s strong and vocal support of Ukraine and discussed the need for solidarity among NATO Allies and partners in confronting Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine and in imposing real costs on Putin and his cronies”.
“Productive discussion with my @MFATurkiye counterpart Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal on solidarity, including in @NATO, in the face of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. I thanked him for Turkey’s strong support in being #UnitedWithUkraine”, Deputy Secretary Sherman tweeted after the meeting.
