Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The Russian president spoke after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday.
The Ukrainian president said the Defense Ministry "needs new approaches and different formats of interaction both with the military and with society.”
Trump had warm words for the democracy-dismantling president after his reelection victory in Turkey.
Erdogan, 69, is set to remain in power until 2028.
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Sinan Ogan has emerged as a potential kingmaker after neither Erdogan nor his main challenger secured an outright majority in the first round.
The incumbent president fell just short of an outright victory, the country's electoral chief confirmed.
Trump praised the Turkish president to Andrew Brunson, an evangelical pastor who was arrested in Turkey in 2016 on espionage and terrorism charges.
One source described the nature of the calls between Trump and Putin as sounding like “two guys in a steam bath.”
“We have to acknowledge the authoritarian nature of Donald Trump,” Abrams told McCain on "The View."
A CNN report suggests the attorney general was doing the bidding of an autocratic foreign leader at the direction of President Donald Trump.