The Times of Israel - 8 Nisan 2025 - ABD Başkanı Donald Trump'ın İsrail'li bir gazetecinin sorusuna verdiği yanıtın tam metni

ABD Başkanı Donald Trump'ın 7 Nisan 2025 pazartesi günü Beyaz Ev Oval Ofis'te, İsrail Başbakanı Netanyahu ile birlikte düzenlediği basın toplantısında, İsrail'li gazeteci Liza Rosovsky'nin sorusuna verdiği yanıtın metnini, İsrail basınında yer aldığı şekliyle aşağıda sunuyorum.

Kaynak : The Times of Israel

Question: Liza Rosovsky from Haaretz. Turkey claims it will stabilize the situation in Syria. Israel doesn’t want Turkey to influence Syria. What do you think? Do you think Turkey’s influence in Syria can actually make it a better, more peaceful country or vice versa?

Trump: Well, I have great relations with a man named Erdogan. Have you heard of him?

Reporter: Yes.

Trump: And I happen to like him, and he likes me and I know the press will get very angry. “He likes Erdogan.” But I do and he likes me and we’ve never had a problem and we’ve gone through a lot and we’ve never had a problem.

US President Donald Trump meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

We’d always got, as you remember, we got our minister back from Turkey. You remember that? And this was a big deal at the time and we got him back. And I told the prime minister, I said, just, Bibi, if you have a problem with Turkey, I really think I’m going to be able to work it out. I have a very, very good relationship with Turkey and with their leader. And I think we’ll be able to work it out. So I hope that’s not going to be a problem. I don’t think it will be a problem.

Now, with that being said, I believe it was Turkey, and I said that to him. I said it. I said, “Congratulations. You’ve done what nobody’s been able to do in two thousand years. You’ve taken over Syria, with different names, but same thing. I said, “You’ve taken it over.” He’s taken it over through surrogates.

He goes, “No, no, no, no, no, It was not me.” I said, “It was you. But that’s okay. You don’t have to say.”

“Well, it sort of maybe was me.” Okay. But what he did, he’s a tough guy. He’s very smart. And he did something that nobody was able to do. You know? You gotta hand it to him.

Any problem that you have with Turkey, I think I can solve

Any problem that you have with Turkey, I think I can solve. I mean, as long as you’re reasonable. You have to be reasonable. We have to be reasonable.

Thank you very much, everyone.