President Donald Trump landed in Ankara and was received by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the airport, according to Israeli journalist Assaf Rosenzweig. Trump is in Turkey to attend the NATO summit, which opened this week.
U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Ankara and was greeted at the airport by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday evening, according to a report from N12 correspondent Assaf Rosenzweig. The moment, which marked the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders during this NATO summit, was reported at around 22:34 Jerusalem time — just minutes after earlier reports that Trump had landed and that a meeting was imminent.
The airport greeting capped a day of rapid developments tracked by The Zioneer since Monday morning. On Monday at 00:34 Jerusalem, transportation of armored vehicles from Trump's convoy to Ankara was reported. By 22:34, the thread rolled through four distinct bulletins: first, Trump's scheduled meeting with Erdogan at 15:15 Tuesday; then confirmation that Trump had landed on a Qatari-donated interim Air Force One; then the scheduled meeting within the hour; and finally the arrival itself — all attributed to N12's correspondent. The version reporting the greeting (v5) and the version reporting the meeting itself (v6) were both published at 22:34 Jerusalem, underscoring the rapid succession of events.
The NATO summit in Ankara is the first visit by a U.S. president to Turkey in 11 years, as The Zioneer reported on Monday morning. Erdogan had said earlier, per N12, that Trump's participation was important for alliance unity. Background items from the wider Zioneer record also show that armored vehicles had been pre-positioned for the event.
No official statement from the White House or the Turkish presidency has yet been cited in reports, and the location and agenda of the meeting itself remain undisclosed.
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