DCPD-202500954 - Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and an Exchange With Reporters - DCPD-202500954 | Content Details

DCPD-202500954 - Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and an Exchange With Reporters

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

Document Categories: Interviews With the News Media : Exchanges with reporters, White House

Subjects: Attorney General
Border security
Deputy Attorney General
Gaza, conflict with Israel
Gaza, hostages held by Hamas
Illegal immigration
Israel, military operations in Gaza
Jordan, King
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Qatar, Amir
Russia, conflict in Ukraine
Russia, oil supply and refining
Russia, President
Russia, Putin
Saudi Arabia, King
Senate minority leader
Syria, President
Syria, removal of U.S. sanctions
Tariffs
Texas, shooting at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office in Dallas
Turkey, President
Turkey, relations with U.S.
Turkey, trade with U.S.
U.S. diplomatic efforts, expansion
Ukraine, international military aid
Ukraine, Russian invasion and airstrikes
United Arab Emirates, President

Names: Abdullah II, King; Alexander, Edan; Asad, Bashar al-; Blanche, Todd; Bondi, Pamela J.; Brunson, Andrew C.; Comey, James B.; Crockett, Jasmine F.; Erdogan, Recep Tayyip; Halligan, Lindsey; Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Obama, Barack; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, King; Schumer, Charles E.; Shara', Ahmad Husayn al-; Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir.

Notes: The President spoke at 11:41 a.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Andrew C. Brunson, pastor, Dirilis (Resurrection) Church in Izmir, Turkey, who was detained by Turkish authorities on October 7, 2016, and returned to the U.S. custody on October 12, 2018; Amir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar; King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia; President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates; King Abdullah II of Jordan; Edan Alexander, a U.S. citizen who was captured during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel and released on May 12; former President Bashar al-Asad and President Ahmad Husayn al-Shara' of Syria; Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer; Rep. Jasmine F. Crockett; Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche; Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan; and former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James B. Comey. President Erdogan referred to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Reporters referred to former President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine; Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia; Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kashyap P. "Kash" Patel; and Joshua Jahn, suspected gunman in the shooting at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, TX, on September 24.