President Tayyip Erdogan sought to reset Turkey's strained ties with the United States by inviting President-elect Donald Trump to visit, and said Trump spoke very positively about Turkey during a phone call.

Turkey, a NATO member and regional military power, angered the Trump Administration in 2019 by purchasing Russian S-400 missile defences. In response, Washington cancelled a planned sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey and ousted it from a joint production programme for the planes.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged US President-elect Donald Trump to honour his election promise and end Israel's wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that he hoped U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will tell Israel to "stop" its war efforts, suggesting a good start would be halting U.S. arms support to Israel.

War in Ukraine could end easily if the U.S. administration under Donald Trump takes a solution-based approach, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday. "We can easily end this war if we see a Trump administration that approaches the issue with a solution-based perspective.