Cavusoglu hopes for Erdogan-Biden meeting this year 

"We hope that the meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Joseph Biden will take place this year," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an address at the Turkevi Center in New York, Report informs.

"We have established a strategic mechanism upon Mr. Biden's proposal," said the foreign minister, referring to a diplomatic effort agreed in Rome on October 31, 2021. "I hope, within this mechanism, we can solve or reduce the issues and improve our cooperation by working with a result-oriented approach."

According to him, the trade turnover between US and Turkiye in 2021 amounted to $27 billion: "We want to increase this figure to $100 billion. Within the framework of the crises around the world, we will discuss with the US on which areas we can develop our relations as part of this mechanism."

The first meeting of the Turkiye-US Strategic Mechanism will be held today, May 18, in New York under the chairmanship of Antony Blinken and Mevlut Cavusoglu. The meeting is expected to discuss various areas of cooperation between the two countries, as well as regional and global issues.