Yes, we had heard this before. His love for ‘the tough guy’ that Erdogan is. In his grammatically haphazard, structurally nonsensical and semantically void sentences, US president Donald Trump stated that Erdogan is a great leader who had stood by him during his hard times (he refers to the impeachment period) and that he managed to do something no one could, that is, ‘taking Syria’. Most recently he said that he would only come to the July 2026 NATO summit because his friend Erdogan is hosting.
And he did.
Gifts and contempt
Erdogan went to Esenboğa airport to welcome Trump to the capital, Ankara. The two walked arm in arm and talked about what I do not know, as Erdogan’s English is limited to non-existent. Surely they have a special bond.
Trump came to Ankara ‘bearing gifts that would make Erdogan very happy’ and repeated, whenever he found the opportunity, that the only reason he was attending the NATO summit wa…
