The two leaders will meet in New York during a UN summit on Thursday, September 21, Trump's National Security Advisor H.R McMaster said.
Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın also announced Wednesday that Erdogan and Trump would hold an independent meeting at the United Nations General Assembly.
The situation in Syria will likely be a topic of conversation between the two leaders, as the U.S.'s policies in the war-torn country have become the greatest problem between the two NATO allies because the U.S. supports the PKK terrorist group's Syrian offshoot the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing People's Protection Forces (YPG).
Additionally, U.S.-Turkey relations have been further strained since an indictment was filed against Erdogan's security personnel who were involved in a brawl with PKK sympathizers in front of the Turkish embassy in Washington in May.
The ongoing probe on violation of Iran sanctions involving a former Turkish minister in the U.S. will likely be another topic of discussion, as Turkey claims the probe is nothing more than the continuation of the Gulenist Terror Group's (FETÖ) December 17-25, 2013 operation against the Turkish government.
Former Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan was recently charged by a U.S. prosecutor with "conspiring to use the U.S. financial system to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of transactions on behalf of the government of Iran and other Iranian entities, which were barred by U.S. sanctions" between 2010 and 2015.
Erdogan, Trump to meet in New York on Sept. 21: White House
16 September 2017
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The date of a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been determined, the White House announced.
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