Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would hold talks with U.S. President Barack Obama while attending a summit on nuclear security in Washington this week, putting to rest questions about whether the leaders would meet.
Erdogan also said he wants U.S. authorities to take steps against a network of schools run by a movement affiliated with Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, a Turk who lives in Pennsylvania whose suspected followers in the Turkish police and judiciary opened a corruption probe into government officials.
The arrest last week in Florida of a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who was at the centre of that graft investigation is not a concern for Turkey, Erdogan said.
