President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. During the meeting, relations between the two countries and tensions between Venezuela and the United States were discussed.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a phone conversation with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, who has been experiencing tensions with the US for some time.
In a statement by the General Directorate of Communications, bilateral relations between Türkiye and Venezuela as well as regional issues were discussed during the meeting.
“DIALOGUE CHANNEL SHOULD BE OPEN”
During the meeting, President Erdoğan told Venezuelan President Maduro that they closely follow developments in their region, that Türkiye believes that problems can be resolved through dialogue and that they demonstrate this on all platforms.
Erdoğan stated that it is important to maintain open channels of dialogue between the US and Venezuela and that they hope tensions will ease as soon as possible.
US-VENEZUELA TENSIONS
In the US, the Trump administration believes Maduro plays a role in illegal drug supply. Maduro denies any connection to the illegal drug trade. Maduro claims that these US efforts are an attempt to overthrow him.
Since September, the US military has carried out at least 21 attacks on drug ships in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing 83 people. The US government recently deployed 11 warships and 15 thousand soldiers to the area within the scope of “Operation Southern Spear”.
It is believed that there was a phone call between Trump and Maduro. While Trump confirmed the meeting, there was no statement from the Venezuelan government. Trump is said to have told Maduro during the meeting that he should “resign immediately and leave the country.”
