{"id":168652,"date":"2025-09-25T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168652\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:47:09","slug":"trump-and-erdogan-speak-in-oval-office-before-talks-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168652\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Erdogan speak in Oval Office before talks &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Outside of handshakes &#8211; what does Erdogan stand to gain?published at 15:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Hilken Do\u011fa\u00e7 Boran<br \/>BBC Turkish, in Istanbul<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Erdogan and Donald Trump sit at a large table, with their respective flags draped behind them. You can see the titles, Turkiye and United States, on placards on the desk in front of the two men.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/96dc0e87-f0c5-4363-a15e-54e0bcb175cf.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When President Erdogan arrives at the White House, he will have already achieved a major goal by shaking hands with President Trump &#8211; a first in more than six years for the Turkish leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Items on Erdogan\u2019s agenda include deals on energy, defence and civil aviation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On energy&#8230; Turkey\u2019s energy minister recently announced that the state-owned Botas has signed a 20-year LNG deal with Mercuria to buy US liquified natural gas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total supply of 70 billion cubic meters (bcm) is expected to be delivered over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turkey inked similar deals with Western companies Exxon Mobil, Shell and TotalEnergies in the last couple of years in a bid to diversify its energy supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On defence&#8230; Erdogan will be pushing for the removal or relaxation of defence sanctions against Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These sanctions, triggered after Turkey\u2019s acquisition of Russian S-400 systems, have caused Turkey to be removed from the F-35 program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Progress on Turkey\u2019s plan to purchase F-16 jets and modernisation kits is likely to come up during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And on civil aviation&#8230; There are hints about the finalisation of a deal for Turkish Airlines to purchase more than 200 aircraft from Boeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate will also present a chance for the sides to discuss issues like Ukraine-Russia talks, Israel\u2019s involvement in Syria and Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside of handshakes &#8211; what does Erdogan stand to gain?published at 15:40 BST 15:40 BST Hilken Do\u011fa\u00e7 BoranBBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-168652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}