A Türkiye-US High Level Defense Group meeting was held in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday with the participation of a delegation from the US Defense Department.

At the "positive and constructive meeting," regional and global defence and security issues were discussed, as well as bilateral defence, military training, and defence industry cooperation, Türkiye's National Defence Ministry said in a statement.

The group’s next meeting is expected to be held in 2023 in the US, it added. 

Türkiye and the US have intensified meetings to solve problems in bilateral relations as well as regional developments.

In September, a Turkish delegation visited Washington under the format of Türkiye-US Strategic Mechanism Dialogue.

The parties reaffirmed their commitment to promote peace and stability and to further deepen and strengthen the enduring defence partnership.

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$100B trade volume

During the visit of the Turkish president to New York for the United Nations General Assembly summit in late September, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the US and Türkiye could reach $100 billion trade volume "in a short time" if the current momentum is kept "decisively."

The US is Türkiye's second major export partner and fourth in terms of imports, adding that "trade volume increased by 30 percent this year and we have reached the level of $22 billion," the president noted. 

In 2021, Turkish-American business volume stood at $28 billion, he said.

Erdogan stated that direct investments from the US in Türkiye have reached $14.1 billion and Turkish companies' investments in the US are at $8.6 billion.

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