Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan scrapped plans to attend a landmark UN climate summit in Scotland Monday after his security conditions were not met.
The Turkish leader did not specify what the security requests pertained to. But reports said that Ankara had been told to limit the number of bodyguards who came with Erdogan and that he could not use his own vehicle in Glasgow.
Erdogan told reporters last week that he would meet with the US president in Glasgow, but the pair ended up meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome on Sunday instead. A White House statement said Biden and Erdogan discussed Turkey’s request to purchase F-16 fighter jets, the war in Syria and human rights.
Erdogan said Biden told him there was a “50/50” chance that Congress will approve the F-16 sale but that he would do “his best” to make it happen.
More than 100 world leaders including US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gathered at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday for talks on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and heeding the dire warnings of climate scientists.
Turkey recently became the last G-20 country to ratify the 2015 Paris climate accords and said it would implement the agreement in a way that avoids it making aggressive cuts in emissions, opposing its classification as a developed country that’s required to adopt a higher level of greenhouse gas reductions.
Ahead of COP26, Turkey withdrew its request to be removed from a classification as a developed nation, Deputy Environment Minister Mehmet Emin Birpinar said on Monday by phone from Glasgow. The country reportedly recently signed an agreement to get around 3.1 billion euros in funding from the Green Climate Fund.
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