U.S.
President Barack Obama (R) and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ©
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Malia JYy - Presiden
Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama tidak mempunyai rancangan untuk mengadakan
pertemuan peribadi dengan rakan sejawatannya dari Turki, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
yang mengetuai ke Amerika Syarikat dengan lawatan rasmi minggu ini untuk
mengambil bahagian dalam Sidang Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear di Washington.
Presiden
Erdogan telah menjemput Obama untuk menyertai beliau pada perasmian sebuah
masjid Turki yang dibiayai di Maryland, tetapi cadangan itu telah ditolak,
lapor Wall Street Journal.
Sebaliknya,
Presiden Erdogan dijangka mengadakan mesyuarat muka-ke-muka dengan Naib
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Joe Biden, seorang pegawai White House memberitahu
WSJ.
Obama
rejects private meeting with Turkey’s Erdogan - US media
American
President Barack Obama has no plans for a personal meeting with his Turkish
counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is heading to the US on an official
visit this week to take part in the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.
President
Erdogan had invited Obama to join him at the inauguration of a Turkish-funded
mosque in Maryland, but the proposal has been turned down, reports the Wall
Street Journal.
Instead,
President Erdogan is expected to hold a face-to-face meeting with US Vice
President Joe Biden, a White House official told the WSJ.
'Demokrasi & kebebasan, kata-kata ini sama sekali
tidak mempunyai nilai apa-apa lagi' - Erdogan '(Democracy & freedom, these
words have absolutely no value any longer' - Erdogan) http://on.rt.com/77bw
Pegawai
itu berkata hubungan antara presiden Amerika dan Turki adalah tetap, kerana
mereka telah mengadakan pertemuan peribadi pada bulan November 2015 di pinggir
sidang kemuncak G20 di Turki, dan mengadakan perbualan telefon pada bulan
Februari.
"Presiden
adalah dalam hubungan seperti biasa dengan beberapa pemimpin DUNIAa yang
lain," kata pegawai pentadbiran kanan kepada media. "Apabila ia
datang kepada [Sidang Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear], tidak ada yang teguh [2
hala] jadual, jadi ia bukan seolah-olah Erdogan sedang dikecualikan."
Perkhidmatan
akhbar presiden Turki berkata ia tidak mempunyai maklumat mengenai pertemuan
antara kedua-dua presiden dibatalkan, laporan RIA Novosti. Dilaporkan, pegawai
Turki telah menyediakan Washington mendapatkan-bersama-sama kedua-dua pemimpin
untuk beberapa bulan.
Sidang
Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear, atau NSS 2016, bermula pada Mac 31. Presiden
Erdogan akan tiba di Amerika Syarikat 2 hari sebelum itu, dan merancang untuk
meninggalkan pada 2 April.
The
official said that contact between the American and Turkish presidents is
regular, since they had a personal meeting in November 2015 on the fringes of
the G20 summit in Turkey, and held a phone conversation in February.
“The
president has been in such regular contact with few other world leaders,” the
senior administration official told the media. “When it comes to the [Nuclear
Security Summit], there is not a robust [bilateral] schedule, so it’s not as if
Erdogan is being excluded.”
The
press service of the Turkish president said it has no information about a
meeting between the two presidents being canceled, RIA Novosti reports.
Reportedly, Turkish officials had been preparing a Washington get-together of
the two leaders for months.
The
Nuclear Security Summit, or NSS 2016, kicks off on March 31. President Erdogan
will arrive in the US two days before that, and is planning to leave on April
2.
Keganasan di Turki: Apakah Erdogan main Washington?
(Op-Edge) (Terror in Turkey: Is Erdogan playing Washington? (Op-Edge) http://on.rt.com/74u3
Hubungan
antara Obama dan Erdogan telah memperhatikan dengan sungguh lebih baik, dengan
Obama sebelum ini menamakan Erdogan kalangan sekutu terdekatnya. Kembali pada
bulan Mei 2013, apabila ketika itu Perdana Menteri Erdogan dan keluarganya
mengadakan lawatan rasmi ke Amerika Syarikat, dia adalah amat dialu-alukan,
dengan Presiden Obama menjemput beliau untuk makan malam.
Itu
adalah ketika Erdogan telah mengumumkan rundingan damai bersejarah dengan
pejuang Kurdis dan memuji perkembangan selanjutnya hubungan ekonomi antara
Turki dan Amerika Syarikat.
Relations
between Obama and Erdogan have certainly seen better times, with Obama
previously naming Erdogan among his closest allies. Back in May 2013, when
then-Prime Minister Erdogan and his family paid an official visit to the US, he
was most welcome, with President Obama inviting him for dinner.
That
was at a time when Erdogan had announced historic peace talks with Kurdish
fighters and praised the further development of the economic ties between Turkey
and the US.
#Turkey Mempunyai 'persoalan' untuk menjawab selepas
laporan RT pada # perdagangan minyak ISIS - UK Lord (#Turkey has
‘serious questions’ to answer after RT report on#ISIS oil trade - UK
Lord) http://on.rt.com/783b
Namun pada
tahun 2013 sudah,
hubungan antara Ankara dan Washington menyaksikan perpecahan, pertama kerana
tindakan keras polis ganas terhadap penunjuk perasaan di Gezi Park Istanbul,
yang didakwa dilakukan oleh penyokong pembangkang ulama Turki Fethullah Gulen,
yang telah mendapat perlindungan di Amerika Syarikat. Tindakan polis Turki
menarik kritikan dari White House.
Kemudian
pada bulan Disember 2013 datang penahanan berpuluh-puluh orang dalam siasatan
politik rasuah yang didedahkan link ke keluarga Erdogan dan rakan terdekat.
Baru-baru
ini, hubungan Turki dengan rakan yang rapat tegang oleh operasi tentera di
tenggara dilancarkan terhadap militia bersenjata Kurdis, yang kemudian juga
merebak ke jawatan Kurdis 'di negara jiran Syria dan Iraq.
Yet
already in 2013, relations between Ankara and Washington witnessed discord,
first because of a violent police crackdown against protesters in Istanbul’s
Gezi Park, allegedly staged by supporters of dissident Turkish cleric Fethullah
Gulen, who had found refuge in the US. The actions of the Turkish police drew
criticism from the White House.
Then in
December 2013 came the arrests of dozens of people in a political-corruption
probe that exposed links to Erdogan’s family and closest associates.
Most
recently, Turkey’s relations with key allies were strained by its military
operation in the southeast launched against Kurdish armed militias, which then
also spread to Kurds’ positions in neighboring Syria and Iraq.
'Tiada IFS dan mencari-cari alasan': Turkey menuntut
sokongan terhadap Amerika Syarikat 'pengganas Kurdis' ‘(No ifs and buts’:
Turkey demands US support against ‘Kurdish terrorists)’ http://on.rt.com/7525
Tindakan
keras terhadap pengkritik dalaman kerajaan Erdogan juga telah kewujudan
kebebasan asas bersuara dan akhbar di Turki di bawah soalan.
Kembali
pada bulan Januari, apabila Naib Presiden Joe Biden melawat Istanbul, beliau
telah bertemu dengan wartawan Turki mengkritik Presiden Erdogan - satu langkah
yang menyebabkan keresahan di kalangan pemimpin Turki dan sekutu-sekutunya.
The
crackdown against internal critics of the Erdogan government has also put the
existence of basic freedom of speech and press in Turkey under question.
Back in
January, when Vice President Joe Biden visited Istanbul, he met with Turkish
journalists critical of President Erdogan – a move that caused consternation
among the Turkish leader and his allies.
Obama menyuarakan sokongan untuk Erdogan terhadap Parti
Pekerja Kurdistan (Obama voiced support for Erdogan against Kurdistan Workers’
Party) http://on.rt.com/74zu
Minggu
lepas seorang pembantu kanan kepada Presiden Erdogan berkata, Turki tidak
memerlukan "Nasihat luar" dari Washington apabila ia datang kepada
politik dalaman. "Ini adalah tingkah laku ‘big brother’ memberi pelajaran.
Kami memerlukan persahabatan, "katanya.
Bagi
Amerika Syarikat, Turki kekal sebagai sekutu utama dalam memperjuangkan jihadis
di Syria dan Iraq, dengan Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat menggunakan lapangan
terbang udara tentera Turki untuk operasi menentang Negara Islam (IS, yang
sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL).
Last
week a senior aide to President Erdogan said Turkey needs no “external advice”
from Washington when it comes to internal politics. “This is the behavior of a
big brother giving lessons. We need friendship,” he stressed.
For the
US, Turkey remains a key ally in fighting jihadists in Syria and Iraq, with the
US Air Force using Turkish military airfields for operations against Islamic
State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).