{"id":70362,"date":"2021-06-15T06:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T06:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/06\/15\/turkey-seeks-us-support-to-maintain-troops-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:48:31","slug":"turkey-seeks-us-support-to-maintain-troops-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/06\/15\/turkey-seeks-us-support-to-maintain-troops-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey seeks US support to maintain troops in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BRUSSELS \u2014 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday his country would need \u201cdiplomatic, logistic and financial assistance\u201d from the United States if it were to maintain troops in Afghanistan to protect and run Kabul\u2019s international airport, following the withdrawal of other NATO troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to reporters at the end of a series of meetings with NATO leaders on the sidelines of the alliance summit, Erdogan also said Turkey was seeking Pakistan and Hungary\u2019s involvement in a new mission in Afghanistan following the departure of the U.S.-led NATO force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey is reported to have offered to guard the airport as questions remain on how security will be assured along major transport routes and at the airport, which is the main gateway to Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf they don\u2019t want us to leave Afghanistan, if they want a (Turkish) support there, then the diplomatic, logistic and financial support that the United States will give us will be of great importance,\u201d Erdogan said. Turkey, a majority Muslim nation which has close historic ties to Afghanistan, currently has some 500 soldiers in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan also said he held a constructive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/06\/13\/biden-and-erdogan-to-meet-at-a-tense-moment-for-turkish-us-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\">meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden <\/a>and invited him to visit Turkey. The two leaders have known each other for years, but it was their first face-to-face meeting as heads of state and came at a difficult time in the two NATO allies\u2019 relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is a strong will for the start of a new era in all areas, based on mutual respect and interest,\u201d Erdogan said. \u201cThere is no problem in Turkey-US relations that cannot be solved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden told reporters he was \u201cconfident we\u2019ll make real progress with Turkey.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2021\/06\/13\/biden-nato-leaders-to-bid-symbolic-adieu-to-afghanistan-at-summit\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-83448824.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Biden, NATO leaders to bid symbolic adieu to Afghanistan at summit<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">With the U.S. leading the withdrawal, European allies and Canada want to hear Biden\u2019s thinking about how security will be assured at their embassies and at Kabul&#039;s airport.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2021\/06\/13\/biden-nato-leaders-to-bid-symbolic-adieu-to-afghanistan-at-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\">On Afghanistan<\/a>, Biden said: \u201cThere was a strong consensus in the room among the leaders &#8230; on Afghanistan. Our troops are coming home, but we agreed that our diplomatic, economic, humanitarian commitment with the Afghan people &#8230; will endure\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey has been angered by U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in Syria while the U.S. has sanctioned Turkey over its purchase of a Russian weapons system. In April, Biden infuriated Ankara by declaring that the Ottoman-era mass killing and deportations of Armenians was \u201cgenocide.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey denies the deportations and massacres, which began in 1915 and killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, amounted to genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan said the Armenian issue was not discussed during the meeting. The Turkish leader however, renewed a call for an end to U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish fighters, who Ankara argues are inextricably linked to a decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI openly stated that the support given to the (Syrian Kurdish fighters) should be ended,\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan signaled that the two leaders failed to find a way to overcome difference over Turkey\u2019s purchase of the S-400 advanced Russian missile defense systems which Washington says is a threat to NATO. It has removed Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet program and imposed sanctions on defense industry officials. It has demanded that Ankara abandons the $2.5 billion system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur thoughts on the S-400 are the same as before, I relayed our same thoughts to Mr. Biden,\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Erdogan who is trying to mend battered relations with Turkey\u2019s Western partners, said that a revival of dialogue with fellow NATO member Greece to resolve long-standing disputes will serve \u201cstability and prosperity\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last summer, a dispute over boundaries and rights to natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean flared anew after Ankara sent research vessels into waters where Greece asserts jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diplomats from the two countries have held two rounds of talks in recent months for the first time in five years, while the foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey also held reciprocal visits. 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