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U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels next week to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and other issues, Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told a White House briefing on Monday.

“And then, as far as President Erdoğan is concerned, they will have a bilateral on the margins of the NATO Summit in Brussels, and there, too, it’s going to be a broad and expansive agenda — issues right there in the region; of course, in the Eastern Mediterranean with Syria, with Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh — but also the role that Turkey will play on a going-forward basis with respect to negotiations and diplomacy in Afghanistan and how the U.S and Turkey itself deal with some of our significant differences on values and human rights and other issues,” Sullivan said.

“And President Biden knows Erdoğan very well.  The two men have spent a good amount of time together, and they are both, I think, looking forward to the opportunity to really have a business-like opportunity to review the full breadth of their relationship,” he added.