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US President Barack Obama talks with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a family photo at the G20 Summit in Cannes on Nov. 3, 2011. (Photo: AP)<\/p>\n
20 January 2012, Friday \/ TODAYSZAMAN.COM,<\/p>\n
US President Barack Obama has listed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan among the five world leaders who he has the closest personal ties with.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Time’s Fareed Zakaria, Obama named his international top friends, who are Erdo\u011fan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave you been able to forge similar relationships with foreign leaders?\u201d Zakaria asked Obama. \u201cBecause one of the criticisms people make about your style of diplomacy is it’s very cool, it’s aloof, that you don’t pal around with these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obama replied that he could not compare his relationships to those of past presidents, but \u201cthe friendships and the bonds of trust that I’ve been able to forge with a whole range of leaders is precisely — or is a big part of what has allowed us to execute effective diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report added that Obama then went on to name the five world leaders who he feels especially close to and explained that he isn’t exactly shooting hoops with them, but that they at least have good working relationships. \u201cI mean, I think that if you ask them — Angela Merkel, or Prime Minister Singh, or President Lee, or Prime Minister Erdo\u011fan, or David Cameron would say, we have a lot of trust and confidence in the president. We believe what he says. We believe that he’ll follow through on his commitments. We think he’s paying attention to our concerns and our interests,\u201d Obama said. \u201cAnd that’s part of the reason why we’ve been able to forge these close working relationships and gotten a whole bunch of stuff done.\u201d<\/p>\n
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US President Barack Obama talks with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a family photo at the G20 Summit in Cannes on Nov. 3, 2011. (Photo: AP) 20 January 2012, Friday \/ TODAYSZAMAN.COM, US President Barack Obama has listed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan among the five world leaders who he has the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-50201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}