Can Trump's return to White House be an opportunity for enhancing US-Turkey ties?
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FILE - President Donald Trump meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office of the White House, Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was among the first foreign leaders to congratulate U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on his early November election victory.
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of Maghazi in the Gaza Strip, during their funeral at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Nov. 14, 2024. Firefighters try to extinguish a fire as smoke rises from a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 14, 2024.
A man offers flowers outside the Zhuhai People's Fitness Plaza where a man rammed his car into people exercising at the sports center, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province on Nov. 13, 2024. A man stands near flowers laid outside the Zhuhai People's Fitness Plaza where a man rammed his car into people exercising at the sports center, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province on Nov. 13, 2024.
A woman speaks on her mobile phone as she stands in front of campaign posters of the Samm Sa Kaddu (Keep Its Word) coalition for the upcoming early legislative election in Dakar, Senegal, Nov. 11, 2024.
People queue up to cast their votes at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nov. 14, 2024.
FILE - Residential buildings stand in front of the Brienzer Rutsch, the rockfall danger zone in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, May 12, 2023.
Employees walk in front of a banner at the government complex where the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit will take place in Lima on November 13, 2024.
People queue to cast their votes during the 2024 Somaliland presidential election at a polling station in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Nov. 13, 2024. Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi, center, gets his biometrics registered before casting his vote inside a polling station during the presidential election in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Nov. 13, 2024. Presidential candidate Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, center, casts his vote inside a polling station during the presidential election in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Nov. 13, 2024.
In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, is welcomed by deputy chief of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13, 2024.
FILE - A person types on a computer keyboard in this Feb. 28, 2013, illustration photo. Two U.S. agencies said Nov. 13, 2024, that a probe has confirmed that Chinese-linked hackers compromised the networks of multiple U.S. telecoms.
FILE - Nicholas Haysom, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Feb. 18, 2015. Haysom, who now heads the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, said leaders in South Sudan need to show tangible evidence that they will hold democratic elections in the country.
Map locating Bryansk, Russia.