Turkish foreign minister, US state sec. hold meeting

By Omer Tugrul Cam

BRUSSELS (AA) - Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels.

This was their first face-to-face meeting after Blinken took office.

The meeting follows a phone conversation on Feb. 15 where the two top officials discussed bilateral relations, regional developments, the fight against terror groups including YPG/PKK and Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the Russian S-400 missile system, Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean.

*Writing by Gozde Bayar