FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper arrives for a bilateral meeting with Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar (not pictured) during a NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium October 25, 2019. Virginia Mayo/Pool via REUTERS
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday it was important to bring Turkey "back in the fold" as he renewed warnings that Ankara appeared to be drifting away from NATO with this year's arms deal with Russia and its incursion into Syria.
"We need Turkey back in the fold. They've been good allies for many years, all the way back to fighting alongside the United States in the Korean war, up to (its) presence with us in Afghanistan," Esper told a small group of reporters.
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