Turkey will boycott meetings with the outgoing US ambassador to Ankara as it no longer recognizes the envoy as the US representative in the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says, stepping up a diplomatic row.
“We have not agreed and are not agreeing to this ambassador making farewell visits with ministers, the parliament speaker and myself,” Erdogan says of US ambassador John Bass, who is shortly to leave Turkey after being nominated the US envoy to Afghanistan.
“We do not see him as the representative of the United States in Turkey,” he says at a news conference with President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade.
It is traditional for outgoing envoys in Turkey to make valedictory visits to bid farewell to top officials before leaving their posts.
Although Bass is expected to leave Turkey in the coming days, it is unprecedented in the history of Turkish-US relations for Ankara to say it no longer recognizes Washington’s ambassador.
— AP
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