Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that Turkey’s interlocutors were the U.S. president and secretary of state.
Ahmet Davutoglu defined documents posted on Wikileaks web-site as diplomatic reports.
“Our interlocutor are President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,” Davutoglu told a meeting of Foreign Policy magazine in Washington D.C.
Davutoglu referred to Obama’s speech at the Turkish parliament last year in which he described Turkey as one of the most important strategic partners with whom his country was eager to establish a model partnership, and said Obama mentioned about a new model partnership, not an ordinary strategic partnership.
“The reports came to Washington D.C. but were not taken seriously, and Obama made a strategic choice by making his first abroad visit to Turkey,” Davutoglu said.
Davutoglu said he had full respect to diplomats, but the reports which were the personal views of diplomats could no way reflect political position of governments.
Turkey and the United States needed each other in the new global order, Davutoglu said.
“Perhaps the diplomats who wrote the cables are not able to adapt to the new situation, and cannot perceive our mentality,” Davutoglu said.
Davutoglu said he was sure that Obama, the U.S. administration and congressmen were well aware of the new geopolitical situation, and therefore two countries would have stronger ties in coming years and reports coming from Ankara would be better.
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Davutoglu had particpated in a meeting at the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) before he left the United States for Kazakhstan to attend the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) heads of state and government summit.
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