President Donald Trump has landed in Ankara, Turkey, ahead of the NATO summit, and is scheduled to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan within the hour, according to N12 reporter Assaf Rozenzweig.
President Donald Trump has landed in Ankara, Turkey, and is scheduled to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan within the hour, according to N12 reporter Assaf Rozenzweig. The meeting is expected around 15:05 Jerusalem time, building on earlier reports that Trump's interim Air Force One—an aircraft donated by Qatar—touched down at 22:34 Monday Jerusalem time, as The Zioneer reported, with Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom) confirming Trump was on board.
This arrival updates a thread The Zioneer has tracked since Monday at 22:34 Jerusalem, when the scheduled meeting time of 15:15 Tuesday was first reported. By 22:34 Monday, the landing itself was confirmed by N12, with the meeting now expected about an hour later. The aircraft used—a Qatari-donated interim Air Force One—was first noted in the 22:34 Monday report by Israel Hayom, adding granular detail to the earlier, single-source N12 account.
As The Zioneer reported Monday at 08:21 Jerusalem, the NATO summit is the first visit by a US president to Turkey in 11 years; Trump's armored vehicles had been transported to Ankara ahead of the summit, per a single report at 00:34 Monday Jerusalem. An earlier dispatch, citing Middle East Eye on June 18, reported Trump told Erdogan he was attending 'just for him.' Erdogan, per an N12 report on June 10, called Trump's participation important for alliance unity.
The agenda of the Trump-Erdogan meeting itself remains unconfirmed. No official readout or statement from either side has been issued regarding the topics to be discussed.
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Source and signal
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