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Turkey State Visit

Published | Video Starts at 00:15

And we've been friends for a long time. Actually, he's a highly respected man. He's respected very much in his country and all throughout Europe and throughout the world where they know him. He's built a tremendous military, powerful military, uses a lot of our equipment. We do a lot of trade with Turkey, and we're going to continue, we're going to do some additional trade. But I have great respect for this man. (00:15–00:21)

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Asserts that [President Erdogan of Turkey] has built a powerful military using U.S. equipment.

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