Erdogan meets with NATO president to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine

Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutter to discuss ways to end the war in 우.

"I discussed with Erdogan challenges related to collective security, including the threat of terrorism, the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East," Rutter said on social media.

"In an increasingly unpredictable world, Turkiye is making a valuable contribution to NATO," he stressed.

Turkiye's presidential office says Erdogan met with Rutter along with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Defense Minister Yashar Güler.

It is Rutter's first visit to Turkiye since he took office last month.President

Erdogan has criticized the U.S. for allowing Ukraine to use its own Attax long-range missiles on the Russian mainland as a wrong decision and unacceptable.

Although Turkiye is a NATO member, it is also close to Russia, so it set the table for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in March 2022, shortly after the war in Ukraine, and has since mediated agreements such as extending the Black Sea Grain Agreement and exchanging prisoners.