Turkish Defense Minister makes an unannounced visit to Pentagon

WASHINGTON: Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar held unannounced converses with acting Pentagon boss Patrick Shanahan Tuesday in the midst of strains over Ankara's arrangements to purchase a Russian rocket barrier framework and its risk to assault Kurdish contenders in Syria.

The two "met as key accomplices," Pentagon representative Charles Summers said in a concise articulation to the press after the gathering.

"They concentrated their exchange on interests, instead of positions, and on the significance of US-Turkish participation respectively and as NATO partners in accomplishing common security and monetary flourishing for the two nations and the locale," Summers said.

Summers made no notice of the spat over the US risk to stop a joint F-35 contender stream program with Turkey on the off chance that it purchases Russia's S-400 rocket barrier framework.

Washington has effectively solidified conveyances of flying machine and parts, saying the US flying machine framework is too delicate to even think about being worked couple with the Russian hardware.

On April 2, Shanahan said he was certain Turkey would turn around the course and by the US Patriot rocket protection framework rather, however, Ankara has made no such responsibility yet.

A week ago, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the conveyance of the S-400 framework could be sooner than at first arranged, as indicated by the Hurriyet day by day.

In parallel to pressures over the rocket framework, the US-Turkey relationship has been stressed by Ankara's risk to dispatch a hostile in upper east Syria against the Kurdish-lion's share Syrian Democratic Forces, which combat the Islamic State bunch with sponsorship from Western air strikes and other help.

Ankara interfaces the SDF to the Kurdish dissident PKK development at home, which it thinks about a fear monger association.

Meeting in Washington with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu toward the beginning of April, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned of "annihilating results" if Turkey strikes Syria.