US President Joe Biden is looking forward to working with whoever wins Türkiye’s presidential elections, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday, Report informs, citing Daily Sabah.
Kirby said the Biden administration lauds "the Turkish people for expressing their desires at the ballot box in a peaceful way."
"President Biden is looking forward to working with whoever the (presidential race) winner is. And again, that's not clear right now," he told reporters during a virtual briefing, noting it "certainly looks like" there will be a runoff between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main rival in the presidential race, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
"The Turkish people get to decide what their government looks like, and they obviously took their citizenship seriously here by going to the ballot box, and we'll just have to see how it plays out," he added.